From harelb Wed Jun 19 02:22:06 1991 To: csime@igc.org CC: bertoldi@astro.princeton.edu,dave@sgi.com,mathrich@umcvmb.bitnet,davids@u2 In-reply-to: 's message of Mon, 17 Jun 91 21:04:44 PDT <9106180404.AA06062@cdp.igc.org> Subject: Re: scanner Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 21:04:44 PDT From: Dee, Harel, One of our correspondents advised you might have information of a way for the Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle East to get a scanner very cheaply. If so, could you respond with details. It would be interesting to try and follow up. Thanks alot, Dee for the Coalition I'm not sure what I said this information is based on; instead of guessing, let me explain how I think we might be able to help. Several of us on ACTIV-L have access to scanners thru our universities. This includes me, and Dartmouth probably has among the better/best facilities, but I'm moving elsewhere and in any case will be offline as of July for a while. Frank Bertoldi [bertoldi@astro.princeton.edu] at Princeton has access to a scanner, and could probably scan some items in for you, although I can't say how much or how regularly since he's already working on several projects. David Ratcliffe used to have access, not sure now. David S Cohen, davids@u2.dartmouth.edu, is an undergraduate here and will be around (not sure if he's here this summer though) and you can contact him and say I referred you (if he doesn't know how to use it, learning to scan is worth learning :-) I'm not sure what you have in mind to scan. It's best with fair to good quality paper, w/minimal graphics (although using 3M to cover those up has worked well for me), and lots of pages from one source; e.g. an Amenity report would be almost ideal, being 1-column, typed, few photos, standard, 50 pages in one report, so you scan straight thru and save lots of hours of typing. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Finally, if you're sure you want to buy your own, you could see if someone at a college might want to buy one (e.g. here at Dartmouth there are pretty good discounts to students/faculty (I forgot to mention Prof. John Lamperti here is a good contact and friend, and on activ-l)). Technically you're not supposed to buy to resell, but if it's like for your mother and not for profit I think that's ok so it may be possible. Also, something I've been meaning to do, we can advert. on ACTIV-L to see who else has access to a scanner, and perhaps more people could volunteer to do some amount of scanning for you. Let me know what you meant, what you need, etc. Best, Harel