Re: 3290s, was Re: PDOS/3x0 on real hardware

On 3/18/19 2:53 PM, Tony Harminc [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
>> I can get it in there; we have a scanning operation here at the
>> museum, with a pipeline to Bitsavers.
> 
> Are you by any chance equipped to scan 11x17 fanfold listings...?

  Yes, we can do those, but they would need to be burst.

> Of course any copy shop will do that for me one page at a time. The
> last quote I got for scanning and OCRing around 100 pages was well
> over $500.

  Wow.  Yeah that's ridiculous.

> I've also been thinking of using an old HP tractor-feed printer I have
> as a platform to position the listings, and then a decent (DSLR?)
> camera. Needs some software to make everything happen together,
> though.

  That's a neat idea.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA