[R-390] Y2K, a labor of love, I am overwhelmed

[Tisha Hayes]

Running through the source materials that Perrier sent me for the Y2K-R3 I
found a procedure that had some radical tube changes, socket rewiring and
the clipping of the Q spoiler resistors in the IF deck (now I know where
THAT idea came from).

For those who have only ever seen just the Y2K PDF's you would be
overwhelmed by the amount of backing information that Perrier had arranged
and collected. All of the manual was done in MS Word with review and markups
turned on. The source materials come in at 1.7 GB with 1,584 files.

Perrier, my hat is off to you. You did an incredible job of organizing
things. The quality of your work is way up there with what I have seen
coming out of high dollar consulting companies. I do not know if the folks
really understand the effort that was put in by all of the contributors to
bring Y2K to it's current form.

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I know that Wei has offered to condense some of the "Pearls" for addition
into the next release of Y2K (R4). Sandy and Randy have offered to help and
several folks have volunteered to add more materials and to proofread.

I have a few "Pepsi Challenges" and maybe some folks can help;

1. Does anyone have the access to AutoCad, the time and the inclination to
convert the electrical schematics for the R-390A into DXF format? This would
be more than just a format conversion from PDF and involve actually
recreating the schematics with AutoCad symbols. (resistors, capacitors,
transformers, tubes, etc...)

2. Would anyone like to tackle the importing and conversion of all of the
parts lists for each section into Excel spreadsheets and do parts lookups to
contemporary supplier part numbers (Mouser, DigiKey, Newark).

3. There are still some older graphics in Y2K-R3 that are poorly rendered
grey-scale. Would someone be willing to take some high resolution TIFF
format pictures? I can come up with a list of images that we still need and
will cull through the reflector list to find other instances where a picture
would speak a thousand words. (for example, a pictorial guide on how to
restore the front panel step by step.)

I do not plan on adding the images in TIFF format. Perry had a good reason
for the level of rendering that he used so the sections would be of
reasonable download size.

Please send me an email off-list if you are willing to help with any of
these areas or have other ideas on where we can go with "R4".

thanks,
-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA
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Optimist: *The glass is half full.*
Pessimist: *The glass is half empty.*
Engineer: *The glass is not sized correctly AND we need a backup system.*