Thoughts on Taking Inventory

From: kees.stravers_at_iae.nl <(kees.stravers_at_iae.nl)>
Date: Mon Apr 5 11:05:00 1999

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:56:42 -0500, mbg_at_world.std.com (Megan) said:
>>I'd also have a "shadow" page that showed the outlines of the "standard"
>>bus types so that boards could be identified by their outline.
>
>Kind of line the charts 'plane-spotters' used...
>
>I'll go that one better... I've been thinking of taking pictures (now
>that I have a digital camera) of one each of all the qbus boards I
>have in my stock, so that people can see what they look like.

[This reaction is a bit late, I'm slowly catching up on my classiccmp reading]

I think this is an excellent idea! It can even be done without a digital
camera for the dual- and quad wide boards, just lay them face-down on a
flatbed scanner! This is a lot quicker and the resulting images look just
fine. I did this for the images of the RQDX boards on my RQDX page at

<http://www.vaxarchive.org/hw/rqdx/>

You can see that the boards look great in the images. (Click on the small
images to see larger ones.)

If you have the time to scan the boards, but not the room on your web page
to post them, I can store them on VAXarchive. In fact, if everyone that
has a few DEC boards lying about, would scan them and email me the resulting
JPG's, I would have a 'visual field guide' online in no time :)

Kees.

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