Before this gets out of hand, I feel I'd better say something since
I started it.
1. As Scott just pointed out, an article that is simply scanned and
put up will eat all kinds of space and be very slow to load.
This is totally unacceptable.
2. I'm working on getting a scanner. I will be taking over publishing
The Brickline after the July issue. By that time, I WILL have
a scanner.
3. What we were looking for initially, is simply a list of the articles
and what Bricklin they appeared in. Currently, Scott
and I have been discussing putting old articles on the Net. We
have to go slowly here. We are trying to build Bricklin
International up as a club. Keep in mind that both the club and
the original aurthors have copyrights to the articles. Therefore,
we can't simply put them on-line. In addition, there could be
some political reprecussions in the Club it we move too quickly.
We don't want this to happen.
4. The articles that are currently on-line in "Bricklin
International's Tech Central" are MY works. Therefore, there is
no problem with the author and copyrights.
5. I brought up a roster. If someone would like to spear head that
effort, I'd greatly appreciate the help and support. I can
email you a blank document that we use on the Morgan mailing
list. In turn, you would email a copy to the Bricklin mailing
list and give us a deadline of when to resubmitt them to you by.
At that time, you simply put the pieces together into 1 large
text document and privately email it to each of the respondents.
The Morgan mailing list usually updates their roster about every
6 mo. While we are getting off the ground, maybe we should
update it every 3 mo or so.
6. If you have anything that you would like put on-line, please
mail or email or FTP it to me. I prefer the information on
media so I don't have to retype it. Currently, I'm running and
MS-DOS clone, with Windows 95. The wordprocessor of choice is
MS Works Ver 4.0. With this I can support MS Word Ver 3-6,
WordPerfect Ver 5&6, Windows Write, a plain ASCII file (ie.
Notepad), or a file in Rich Text Format (RTF).
If you have pictures or drawings to accompany the information
and have access to a scanner, Color pictures should be in JPG
format, while Black & white line drawings should be in GIF
format.
If you don't have access to a scanner and are using an IBM PC
clone, you could send me the pictures or drawings, and a 3 1/4"
floppy disk containing any textual information.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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