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    Portland Atari Club

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    9 hours ago, Larry said:

    These were well done by the Portland folks -- better than most that I've looked at.

     

    I am curious why the scans are so large.  This surely lengthens the time for archive.org's servers to send these out.  70+ MB for a 20-some page scan seems like overkill. 

    Well, they are quite small compared to a lot of other scans on Archive. Archive.org is not concerned with compressing files. Just the opposite. They are trying to preserve things. Not only that but they also take the uploaded documents and convert them into a bunch of different formats.

     

    In general, better to have higher resolution scans than low res scans. People can compress files to make them smaller with the loss of dots-per-inch but you can't go the other way without re-scanning the document.

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    Hello My Long Rested Ataris

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    11 minutes ago, bfollowell said:

    Yes and no. Many of the Antic & Analog disks weren't properly archived as many were double-sided, but only one side is available. If the second sides have been archived since the last time I checked, I'm not aware of it.

     

    Still, it would be great to see everything he has properly archived.

     

    Do you know what issue numbers?

    Hello My Long Rested Ataris

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    1 hour ago, bfollowell said:

    I just looked through the images of those three collections and all I can say is WOW!

     

    I'd love to stumble onto something like that and to be able to save them. It kills me to think that, if he hadn't saved all of that one collection, it was headed to the dump, and makes me wonder, how many other similar and smaller collections have met the same fate over the decades. It's a tragedy.

     

    I'd really love to see all of those Antic & Analog cover disks and APX disks get properly flux imaged and archived.

     

    What's really missing more  are utilities with their packaging and public domain software. The Antic and Analog magazine software has been archived and most of the the APX stuff as been as well. A big thing that is needed is organizing this stuff better and having a more easier way to get access to it. For example, a site needs to be created to access and search all the user group disks. Right now they are just partial collections out there in various places.

    Skematik's Atari 410 schematics.

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    1 hour ago, MrFish said:

    Nice... do you mind if I put these up on my website?

     

    Of course. As always, please take what I scan a put it in as many places on the Web as possible. This goes for everyone. As much as Archive.org is great, I don't expect any one place to be around forever.

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    Skematik's Atari 410 schematics.

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    I came across these in an auction of a bunch of Atari service manuals. I am assuming they are super rare. They are very large so I had to stitch them together the best I could. The only mention of them that I could find anywhere was in an ad in issue 14 of Analog Computing.

     

    https://archive.org/details/atari-410-schematic-a-skematiks/Atari_410_Schematic_A_Skematiks/

     

    I don't know how accurate they are but for the sake of preservation, here they are.

     

     

    P.S. It is amazing how terrible Google is. I did a search for 'Skematiks', a very strange spelling that would have very few hits. I got nothing. I did the same search on Archive.org and the ad in Analog magazine came up easily. Wow!!

     

     

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