Bitsavers upstream?

Philipp Hachtmann hachti at hachti.de
Wed Jun 9 18:12:12 CDT 2010


Hi,

> Since I have limited access to the machine that bitsavers is hosted on,
> it would have to be somewhere else. I also don't have the cycles to
> maintain
> a bunch of individual accounts for uploaders. The handful of people who
> send
> me things generally just do it via email, but dealing with it in a timely
> manner as well as checking the quality of submissions is problematic.
Ok, I'll do that now. Will send you a personal email soon.

Everybody else who wants to contribute should contact me.

> I was thinking about the statistics this morning, and less than 1% of the
> contents of bitsavers has come from external donations.
That's quite impressive!

> Of more use would be getting people involved who would like to help with
> the
> postprocessing backlog. I just checked, and there are roughly
> 8000 documents that need to be cleaned up, page checked and pdf/OCRed
Oh :-/
I'm currently completely busy (that means full time!) with rescuing, sorting, repairing, selling, 
trading, and playing with real stuff....

Regards,

Philipp

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