[Coco] RAINBOW scans

[Derek]

The time has come for the community to share what it has with each other before the passage of time makes all this information even harder to archive. 

I have uploaded all my rainbow on disk and tapes to the yahoo group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RainbowArchive/

We all have waited long enough to get this "project" going. I believe it is now time for everyone who has something to contribute to make it available somewhere online for all of us to be able to archive this information. Rapidshare, Megaupload or Yahoo Groups is a good option. I would be willing to mirror anything uploaded on my Premium Rapidshare account so it will be a permanent download archive.

I am also active in the vintage Atari community and this is what they have done for archiving their old magazines: http://www.atarimagazines.com/

I maybe in the minority in my views on this and I mean no offense by what I say but I believe the Rainbow information is too important to just let fade away over time. The Rainbow was the BEST computer magazine ever. It is far too important to loose in my opinion.

 

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--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Ron VanScherpe <rvanscherpe at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ron VanScherpe <rvanscherpe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] RAINBOW scans
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:30 AM

I have personall purchased about 65 Rainbow issues and had them unbound at
Kinkos and have scanned them all in using a Fijitsu ScanSnap scanner.  It
took about 20 mins per issue to scan and the files were around 200MB each.

I had heard about the scanning project a few years ago and when I heard that
it was recently dropped due to Lonnie's death I quickly scrambled to
purchase issues.  I have requested on this list before that we somehow
contact the estate or the family and encourage them to proceed with this
project because it is important and they don't have to do any of the work
since the bulk of it is already done.  And the caveat of not having every
single issue before they can release it is ridiculous.  We need to be in
communication with the family.  We as a coco community are willing to pay
for it but if it dies by the waste side then more and more scans are going
to appear.  Let's encourage the Estate to continue with the project.

Ron.

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