Data sheet spelunking and the HORROR of data book burning.

[Phil Hobbs]

Winfield Hill wrote:

mike diack wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote:


I've been spending time (too much time) getting scans of
those old data sheets into my computer, and backed up too.
I'm up to 20,000 files and 5GB so far.

Yes, but then you can't read them on the can (where all the
best design work takes place).


No problem with a tablet computer. I have a Linux model, and
my assistant has a Microsoft model. They're up to the task.


A little pile of supplementary CDs with AofE 3rd edition?


I've switched to DVD-ROMs, 5GB is way too much for CDs. After
my collection exceeds 5GB, I'll have to edit it or something.

AoE 3rd edition may have some web-page supplemental material,
but no CD. These days a supplemental CD is becoming popular
with engineering textbooks, but the publishers use this as an
excuse to raise the price to the $175 or higher vicinity. The
local College bookstore then offers only the "with-CD" version.
We will not be doing that.

Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

How about an .iso file on the web site, to have the best of both worlds?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

 

[Terry Given]

"Winfield Hill" <Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:c8ocoh01qvl@drn.newsguy.com...

mike diack wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote:

I've been spending time (too much time) getting scans of
those old data sheets into my computer, and backed up too.
I'm up to 20,000 files and 5GB so far.

Yes, but then you can't read them on the can (where all the
best design work takes place).

No problem with a tablet computer. I have a Linux model, and
my assistant has a Microsoft model. They're up to the task.

A little pile of supplementary CDs with AofE 3rd edition?

I've switched to DVD-ROMs, 5GB is way too much for CDs. After
my collection exceeds 5GB, I'll have to edit it or something.

AoE 3rd edition may have some web-page supplemental material,
but no CD. These days a supplemental CD is becoming popular
with engineering textbooks, but the publishers use this as an
excuse to raise the price to the $175 or higher vicinity. The
local College bookstore then offers only the "with-CD" version.
We will not be doing that.

Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

Hi Win,

Is there any way you can make these DVD's available - I'm thinking this:
find a DVD copy place that will accept internet orders, then mail DVD's to
those (like me) who wish them. I'd happily pay $20-$50 for such a DVD, its
just a pain in the butt for you to do once, let alone 37+ times, even if you
make $20 per DVD (ooh, $740+)

I recently joined the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferromagnetics and Frequncy Control
Society, to take advantage of a great offer - for about US$50 I got the
1952-2000 UFFC digital archive, 24 CD's with every paper they have ever
published, AND about 12 books (including Frerking, Parzen, Salt and
Heising's books on crystal oscillators). It was cheaper than buying
Frerking's book alone!

Cheers
Terry

 

[Dan Fraser]

Check out:

www.schematicsforfree.mattsoft.net

 

[Ben Bradley]

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:51:18 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 May 2004 22:44:49 GMT, Dave Cole <davidwcole@earthlink.net
wrote:

I agree completely! I still pine for my old National Semiconductor,
Analog Devices, Linear Tech., Burr Brown, Motorola, Texas Inst., Signetics,
and others too numerous to recall, plus many other 'Idea Books' that are
now, like Clementine, lost-and-gone-forever. :-(
I doubt their loss can ever be recouped. When parts count (discretes
and gates - even toobs and relay contacts) needed minimizing, some really
clever designs were created. Now comes the day when _jellybean_
microcontrollers get used to blink lights. O' Brave New World.

I've got several hardback and semihardback (?) TI databooks from
the '70's... I should check prices, see if these are sellable...

Dave Cole

I discovered - consternation! - that I'd somehow lost my National 1980
Linear Applications book *and* the huge 1982 databook. Found them both
on Alibris, for about $15 each.

Alibris is just one online bookseller. You can look through many
online book databases with <http://www.bookfinder.com>. I've also
searched with <http://www.addall.com> and <http://used.addall.com> but
rarely see anything that's not also on bookfinder.
Of course I really shouldn't be giving out these URL's, because if
more people buy these things, they become more scarce and the prices
go up, especially on something I'm likely to not have and want.

It's even hard to find serious datasheets in things like 1N914s these
days. The old books were great.

John

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[Tim Shoppa]

Ben Bradley <ben_nospam_bradley@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<f6b0b0hb3gn3lrc2mqublkvmgrfmlurop3@4ax.com>...

I've got several hardback and semihardback (?) TI databooks from
the '70's... I should check prices, see if these are sellable...

I've been buying these as I find them from used booksellers on amazon.com
to fill "holes" in my collection. Typical prices are $5-$10.

Al Kossow has scanned in some 60's/70's databooks. Look under "ti",
"signetics", "amd", etc., at

http://www.bitkeepers.org/pdf/

Tim.

 

[L. Fiar]

"mike diack" <moby@kcbbs.gen.middleearth> wrote in message
news:40afaf01.1172418@News.xtra.co.nz...

On 22 May 2004 07:11:12 -0700, Winfield Hill
Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote:

I've been spending time (too much time) getting
scans of those old data sheets into my computer,
and backed up too.
I'm up to 20,000 files and 5GB so far.

Yes, but then you can't read them on the can

Oh yes you can...
http://www.Load-Of.Cobblers.org/rrcb/graphics/akc_room.jpg

(where all the best design work takes place).

Absolutely...
http://www.TurdTwister.com/

 

[maxfoo]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 01:02:10 +0100, "L. Fiar" <_@_._> wrote:

(where all the best design work takes place).

Absolutely...
http://www.TurdTwister.com/

you gotta be shittin' me, a sphincter lock... someone has waaay too much time...














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[James Arthur]

Win Hill wrote:

I've been spending time (too much time) getting scans of
those old data sheets into my computer, and backed up too.
I'm up to 20,000 files and 5GB so far.

Ah, for a faster scanner, and faster easier-to-use more-
flexible scanning software!

Thanks,
- Win

Win,
Ever consider using a digital camera for scanning? I've scanned lots-o-cool
electronics stuff for posterity the old-fashioned way, using flatbed and
page-fed scanners.

When I get around to the next batch I'm inclined to try ye olde digicam.
Digicams are fast (5-10sec per page versus >1 minute for scanning). IME 100
dots-per-inch grayscale is legible, but optical character recognition (OCR) can
be problematic. 5 megapixels = 250dpi, which looks awfully good in grayscale &
should satisfy better OCR packages.

I use an older 'lite' version of PaperPort and PagisPro 3.0 for document
management.

PagisPro 3.0 is perhaps the least reliable software I own. Basic storage and
retrieval works fine. It crashes when using the fancy bits; the OCR is
unusable, as is the indexing.

My version of PaperPort is elegant and fast, but archaic and rudimentary.
Excellent OCR if you don't mind losing the formatting.

Regards,
James Arthur