e*ectronotes

[KA4HJH]

Romeo wrote:
>One way to keep people from ripping it off is to make it free.  I don't get
>the impression Bernie is making any money off the publication, nor any of
>the other people who contributed to Electronotes.  I get the impression
>that it's an extra burden for him to make copies and distribute the stuff
>at this point in time.  I also get the impression that his heart is no
>longer with analog diy circuitry (he's DSP prof now).

I suspect this has been the case since '84 (see my last posting).

>I like the CD rom Idea, but personally I think the best way to disseminate
>this information would be to scan it in and make it available online.

Because of the sheer size of the Electronotes collection, it would have to
be "captured," i.e., the text OCR'd (optical character recognition) and
then put back with the scanned graphics (there's even the possibility of
tracing the graphics--Bernie kept them simple, fortunately) to create a PDF
(Adode Acrobat) file. This drastically reduces the size of the finished
document, and you get perfect text on screen or printed out. Otherwise, the
files would be HUGE. Maybe it would fit on one CD--maybe. How many pages is
it???

As for being online, well, space is THE issue unless you know somebody or
have your own server. And then some fool will want the whole thing
converted to HTML as well. HTML with the quality of PDF is on its way but
not quite here yet.

Anyway, both would be nice but CD-ROM is a must due to the volume of material.

>Maybe it's just the hippie in me talking, but I feel something like
>Electronotes should be easily accessible to those who want it.

Preach on, brother Romeo.

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"