[Coco] Coco archive dump?

[Sean]

The entire CoCo software library itself is probably well below 1gb.  It's
all the scans of docs and magazines becoming available increasing the size
of everyone's collection.

A CoCo .torrent might be a good option, though frequent changes could make
that difficult to maintain.



On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Mathieu, that's the case with most of the PDFs. The problem is, you can't
> reduce them too much without losing quality. If the originals were still
> around, then modern, space saving scans could be made, but many are hard to
> find now. I know there are methods for making some of them smaller, but
> still it would be a HUGE task.
> Take for example the more recent scans done of the Rainbow... they are
> nice, clear, and supposedly, "searchable". But just copy & paste some text
> from them and you'll find 20%-30% garbage. This mean any text search is
> gonna miss 20%-30% of the text in the search. No actual spell-checked OCR.
> The remakes Aaron Wolfe has on his site (from some of the original scanned
> tiffs), are much better for copy/paste of listings.
> I've seen little 5-6 page cart manuals be at 40-50meg and that's
> ridiculous.
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