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What's this? An archiving blog?

 It is! Well spotted.

The purpose of this blog is to allow me to record some of the archiving work I do both locally, in my village, and for retro-computer systems in general (although with an Acorn/BBC slant).

If you're looking to find my uploads then the site I upload the most to is the Internet Archive.

Here are a couple of examples;

Pace Micro Technology - Micronet Terminal for the BBC Micro Computer

Bar Hill News 200204 April 2002 Issue 386

Scanning-wise I tend to use an HP OfficeJet Pro 9120e Series for A4 documents (of which there are a lot!), photos, and other less than A4 or hand-written documents. This works quite well and also works in a very automated way. I can often just set it going and do other things.

Of course, there will always be things that aren't suitable for feeding through a scanner. In this case, I have the Scanner Pro app on my iPhone. I have used this for years and find it incredibly useful for scanning books and odd-shaped items. 

And finally, I use Google Photoscan for photographs that either don't or can't work on the flatbed scanner.

The phone I use is an iPhone 15 Pro Max and is capable of capturing some really detailed large images. Like this;


This is a village map from 1967. Hopefully, you can see the details!

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