[ARC5] [MRCA] AN/PRC-74 Schematics

[J. Forster]

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> On Dec 1, 2012, at 2:40 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> BUT, my concern is long term.
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> Where I worked till retirement (National institute of Standards and
Technology) I knew a fellow who was their expert in microfilm.  He and
the US National Archivist were on first name basis.  He strongly
believed that the way to make stuff available to the most people most
easily was with computers.  He also adamantly believed that the ONLY way
to preserve printed information for the LONG term was microfilm. Period.

Yes and no.

I like computers because they and the SW are now mature and stable enough
that the information can be copied and distributed at essentially no cost.
Furthermore, the files can be stored on any technology, from 8" floppies
to Flash RAM, to hard drives to CDs and DVDs to cloud servers. OIf you
want backups, they are just a click away.

Microfilm or fiche is largely a dying format, IMO. Just try and get a
fiche duplicated. I was able to, but it took going to MIT Graphic Arts to
get it done. Also, the media, either silver or dry diazo, is not eternal.

Finally, it takes special rquipment to get a hard copy of even 1 page.
Also, if the image is corrupted, you are screwed. Andsome of the images
I've seen are pretty bad.

IMO, the way to go for mere mortal is Acrobat or a clone that makes
compatible files.

>> ... Google, by scanning it incompletely, is
>> hastening the very loss of information they are seeking to preserve.
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> I think they do not really have a noble, altruistic, conservators
viewpoint on preserving stuff.  They really only want profit.
> Claiming to have scanned lots of stuff is just part of that.

No argument.

In fact, Google is probably using their other businesses to data mine. An
example:

A couple of days ago, I received an email link of a snow globe. The text
said 'enter your street address to see a pic of your house in the globe'.
Oh, BTW, you had to have Cookies enabled or it would not work.

Well, the app is simple...  it grabs a pic of the address you enter from
Google Street View and pastes it into the snow globe.

The site is:  http://www.draftfcb.com/holiday2011/

BUT, Google now has set a Cookie in your computer and can tie that to the
street address you entered. Sure, you may have entered a friends address
also, but while gathering Street View pics, that have also been logging
ISP information.

Anybody want to bet they are not correloating it?

Google may be out to do 'good', but it's THEIR vision og good.

YMMV,

-John

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