Assuming you would not be breaking any copy right laws, I think it
would be worth everyone's money, to have it profesionally repoduced, to
gif, or jpg format. I would gladly, throw in $1 a head, times say only
half the list was interested, (350), That's $350. That should do it!

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Racer X wrote:

> One more suggestion, there are audio-visual places here in Houston that specialize
> in
> transfering things like video to CD to movies and such. Perhaps a place like that
> could
> put those onto CD for you...eh?
> Tony
> ---------
>
> Blue Eyes wrote:
>
> > Since I have, WE have one genuine dealer Vanagon Microfiche.   It has about 102
> > pages of wonderful exploded views and part numbers that could serve this
> > community of friends.   The  fiche measures 9.3 inches by 7.1 inch.  Individual
> > pages are laid out in a format .9 cm wide by .7 cm. tall.  This appears to be
> > like either A size or 11 inch by 8 1/2 as a comparable full size hardcopy
> > equivalent.  To give you a feel for the scale of this reduction, that's about
> > 1/1000th of the full size area per page and a linear reduction by a factor of
> > about 31.4 to 1.   My scanner is capable of true optical resolution as fine as
> > 600 by 1200.  Interpolation "resolution" beyond the optical limits won't help
> > us.  600 x 1200 dpi sounds pretty good for detailed examination of postage
> > stamps etc., but when we divide that by 31.4 it's only the full page size
> > equivalent to 19.1 by 38.2 dots per inch!  That's not even close to being fine
> > enough to what we need.
> >
> > I hope one among us has access to the high accuracy scanning equipment
> > necessary to make really crisp detailed Jpegs directly.  If that connection
> > fails, we can try to optically enlarge each page and then scan the resulting
> > hard copy into Jpegs that could display on most computers.  It would be a poor
> > decision to skimp on the conversion quality by accepting some marginally blurry
> > public library machine.  These might be used over and over by, well, who knows
> > where someone like Bob might send them.  If you can get this scanned by one of
> > the right kind of dedicated optical equipment, contact me and let's talk.  All
> > on this List should thank you.
> > John
>