HP 1200C (was Re: [SunRescue] What Gem did I find?)

[Ken Hansen]

See below...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:11 PM
Subject: RE: HP 1200C (was Re: [SunRescue] What Gem did I find?)


> On March 24, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > What Dave, you don't have a Docucenter "on-demand" printing press/bindry
system in the living room? ;^)
>
>   Nope...but my Linotronic phototypesetter arrives next week. :)
>
>   I'm having crazy thoughts about OCRing and re-typesetting classic
> computer docs.  Think high-density print, acid-free paper, delivered
> shrink-wrapped and three-hole drilled, put it in your favorite binder,
> that sort of thing.  You see, I find those little DEC handbooks
> absolutely invaluable.  They're packed with great information.
> Problem is, they're printed on really shitty cheap-ass paper that is
> starting to disintegrate on the 20-30 year old books.  I'd love to
> have that stuff better preserved.
>
>   Just a thought.

You'd be much beter served trying to ge the electronic copy from the MFG. -
shredding and feeding manuals into an OCR scanner, then reviewing *every*
word for accuracy would be, at best, a time-consuming exercise...

> > It is only reasonable to assume, for a guy that keeps a Cray in the
basement...
>
>   I'd never put a Cray in a basement.  I converted my dining room
> into a computer room until I can afford to have a proper
> computer-room-style addition put on the house.

I can just see my wife's face:

    "Um, honey - tell me again, why do we have a raised floor for our sun
room,
    and what is that "chiller" and UPS-thingie you put in work shed out
back?"

Yeah, that would fly...

;^)

Ken