if an author is proud of his book, he won't trash the manuscripts.
>
>On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, John Foust wrote:
>
>> who've since tossed their floppies with the original manuscript.
>> Without this, we're back to scanning and OCR and proofreading.
>> They'd thought that absolutely no one was interested. For example,
>> Sheldon Leemon, author of "Mapping the C-64", tossed his old Atari
>> floppies that had held his manuscript.
>
>This is something I hadn't considered. The authors of some of the most
>classic of computer books (I could name a bunch of Apple ones, like
>_Benath Apple DOS_ for one) should be contacted and asked to hold onto
>their original manuscripts if they still have them. While it wouldn't
be
>a total loss if they are thrown out, since at least the book survives
in
>thousands of coipies, it would be nice to have the original manuscript
>around in digital form to be preserved for millenia.
>
>I wonder if this is something we could turn into a concerted effort, a
>drive to root out old computer book authors, or if anyone is really
>interested.
>
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