Recently scanned PDP-8/I schematics available

From: Robert Krten <root_at_parse.com>
Date: Tue Jul 22 18:34:53 2003

Jim Battle sez...
>
> Robert Krten wrote:
> > Recent scans of my collection of 17"x22" PDP-8/I schematics are now
> > available; many are different (newer) revision than others available
> > on the web.
> >
> > http://www.parse.com/~pdp8/pdp8i/drawings.html
> >
> > There's a tarball so you can download the whole thing (11 Megs).
> >
> > Spozedly, these are 400 DPI scans, so they should be pretty reasonable
> > quality.
>
> Robert --
>
> I recently did a number of large format schematics at 600 dpi, but my
> file sizes were smaller that yours. So I downloaded one of yours and
> took a good look. The scanning was done with halftoning turned on, so
> all of your lines and characters are "fuzzy" -- an attempt to reproduce
> greyscale at 1bpp. You should have turned off the halftoning and your
> file size would be much smaller.

Ok, I'll keep that in mind for next time -- I didn't do the scanning,
a local copy shop did...

Cheers,
-RK

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