Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

ascii.textfiles.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 153 posts

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#71

Post by toyg »

snthd wrote: post #63

I thought the point in debinding was to use an autofeeder - to make the actual scanning less labor intensive. Wouldn't a camera based scanner be better? It still requires manual page turning, but will save on the prep work and destroying the magazines, even if just to sell on. The paper and ink quality will present they're own issues, but maybe those will be quicker to solve than the debinding and page feeding proces…

With very thick books like those, debinding is necessary even just to get a good straight scan.

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#74

Post by jimjimjim »

miroljub wrote: post #64
mindcrime wrote: post #14

This... is fugging amazing. No, seriously. It really is. Those of you who are too young to remember the heyday of Computer Shopper won't get it (probably) but that magazine was ... well, as the article says, practically a "bible" to some of us. There was NOTHING like finding the new issue on the news-stand, buying it, and rushing home to pore over the ads, looking for a sweet new motherboard, some RAM, maybe a Sound…

[flagged]

[flagged]

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#76

Post by firstSpeaker »

Sometime I feel sad that younger generations won’t have the excitements of early days of PC and sometimes I feel they might be better off spending their time on something that is more productive. One thing for sure, that era is gone and all The most of the enablers of that era are also history now.

Amount of time I spend reading and researching which motherboard and RAM would best fit together makes me smile from time to time. Or the amount of time I spend searching for extra memory chips for my trident card…

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#77

Post by funnybeam »

dcminter wrote: post #61
sprior wrote: post #3

I buy Computer Shopper for the articles - said no one ever.

I used to buy the British edition at least partially for the articles, but it could be a damned hard slog finding them. In fact a lot of the computer magazines tended in this direction - presumably the consolidation around the PC and the commoditization of it ate into margins as they all focused on the one (albeit growing) narrower topic. By the by, I often joke that I buy The Economist for the pictures (not true, bu…

Including a regular Linux column by Charlie Stross before he started writing novels

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#78

Post by pkphilip »

mindcrime wrote: post #14

This... is fugging amazing. No, seriously. It really is. Those of you who are too young to remember the heyday of Computer Shopper won't get it (probably) but that magazine was ... well, as the article says, practically a "bible" to some of us. There was NOTHING like finding the new issue on the news-stand, buying it, and rushing home to pore over the ads, looking for a sweet new motherboard, some RAM, maybe a Sound…

Yep, been there, done that.

Re: Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

#80

Post by yard2010 »

miroljub wrote: post #64
mindcrime wrote: post #14

This... is fugging amazing. No, seriously. It really is. Those of you who are too young to remember the heyday of Computer Shopper won't get it (probably) but that magazine was ... well, as the article says, practically a "bible" to some of us. There was NOTHING like finding the new issue on the news-stand, buying it, and rushing home to pore over the ads, looking for a sweet new motherboard, some RAM, maybe a Sound…

[flagged]

[flagged]
Post reply on HN