Re: Hardcopy documentation

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
In article <v44_i.39630$T8.23296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Robert
Jarratt" <nospam@xxxxxxx> writes: {...snip...}
Must be my poor memory about the 8 volumes then, or was it that the
system calls was volume 8? It is hard to remember back 20+ years.
Please do let me

With age comes something but I can't remember what! :)



know what you have and how much it would cost, but I have to say
that funds are limited and if it is too much I may have to pass, or
perhaps just have a subset if you are prepared to do this.

If I could find it in my heart to part with my set, I'd let you have
it.
I've held onto the old manuals as it's a sort of personal
d|i|g|i|t|a|l
museum. I did part with some stuff simply because I needed some
breath-
ing room some time ago. (uVAX-II, 9 track, Pro-350, etc., etc.)
IIRC,
Bob Koehler and a friend of his came to inherit some of this
memorabilia.

I gave a couple of VAXen (3100 series) and Alphas (AS200) away too to
a
few "hobbyists". They really had no value for sale. I asked only to
be
reimbursed the shipping costs.


Glad to hear you are out of the hospital.

FYI - as to your manuals and wanting to keep a copy of them, I came across a
very good personal scanner last week - Fujitsu Scansnap S510.

It comes in two models,
S510 for PC's, and
S510M for Mac.
It's rated at 18 page per minute BOTH sides simultaneously, for a total of
36 images per minute, and will OCR as it creates the .pdf files

In the demo I saw the real speed was more like 13 ppm double-sided, which is
damn good for a $400 scanner. But that's just the paper speed - the OCR
takes several minutes longer.

I'm in the midst of clearing my office of lots of old paper files and
non-DEC manuals and think so highly of this scanner that I'll be getting
one. My Brother multifunction scanner is ok but sucks when it comes to
double-sided because I have to manually flip the pages to scan the 2nd side,
and the software selection for duplexing the document is has to be manually
triggered, and the OCR is not automatic.

Amazon has these Fujitsu scanners, and in Canada www.ats-systems.com is
where I'd recommend. Fujitsu also has a rebate this months for $50 in both
Canada and the US.

For higher volume scans, Fujitsu and Canon have good duplex models that will
scan 30-50+ pages/minute and OCR at almost the same speed, in the
mid-$2-3000 range.

--
OpenVMS - The never-advertised operating system with the dwindling ISV
base.


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