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

[J. Forster]

Nick,

I'm not saying Google is not doing a service by scanning a lot of stuff. I
like their patents a lot.

BUT, my concern is long term. I grew up in the era before Xerox and
scanners technical information was hard to get. If you were really lucky,
you got a poor copy of a schemat for a unit. Mostly you got nothing.

Yes, there were a very few books, but they had little but schemats and
"conversion" information.

I don't care immediately that Google's scans don't have oversized prints,
but, in the future when the HC gets even rarer than it is now, the loss
will be irretrievable.

Already, there are sets whose doc is essentially mythical. I have two such
at least.

It's almost the same argument as preserving the diversity of critters and
plants worldwide.

The custodians of documents will just remember that 'Google scanned our
library', so we can toss out all the dusty manuals to make room for the
latest romance novel or Time magazine. They will not remember that the
prints were not scanned.

That's the crux of the argument. Google, by scanning it incompletely, is
hastening the very loss of information they are seeking to preserve.

YMMV,

-John

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> Well, you guys should definitely ask for your money back! Oh wait.......
>
> Me, I'm grateful to Google for the several million pages they've given us
> for free that are quite useful and readable. Ok they aren't perfect and
> are missing some of my favorite govt pubs but it sure is worth at least
> what they charge.
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 2:04 PM, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Nov 2012 at 18:53, J. Forster wrote:
>>
>>> IMO, this Google program is run by complete cretins. And, it seems
>>> there is no way to contact Google.
>>
>> You are absolutely correct. I cannot believe the lousy quality of the
>> scans of
>> books we have found on Google: missing pages, duplicated pages,
>> off-square pages, folded edges, etc., ad nauseaum.
>
>