(HP71B) Where to get the best quality SW IDS prints?

[floppy]

Hello,
I am using the IDS from this forum (1, 2 3 and Forth) and I am not sure if it is the best scans available.
Can anybody recommend where are the best scans?
Regards.

[rprosperi]

While no collection of scans is perfect and quality varies in all large document collections, generally speaking, the best quality scans can be found at Eric Rechlin's HP Literature site:

https://literature.hpcalc.org/

[floppy]

(07-01-2024 02:36 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  While no collection of scans is perfect and quality varies in all large document collections, generally speaking, the best quality scans can be found at Eric Rechlin's HP Literature site:

https://literature.hpcalc.org/

Thanks.
Erich Site: ROM/Forth SW IDS and SW IDS Vol1
USB from https://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm : SW IDS Vol2 and Vol3

[rprosperi]

You're welcome.

71B IDS Vols II and III are coming soon-ish (late this year?) to Eric's Literature site, they need to be scanned from the 4-up original format (the way HP published and sold them) and converted to 1-up format, and this process requires some manual steps and cleanup, so a huge job for the resulting thousands of pages.

[brouhaha]

When I scanned the the IDS originals I had (71 SW vols I, II, III, 71 HW, and HP-IL), I scanned them at 600 dpi on a ScanJet 3c, and used a simple script on Linux to de-up the 2-up and 4-up pages (vol II and III). It worked very well and with very little manual effort because the sheet feeder on the scanner ensured that none of the pages had any significant angular skew, and that there was almost no variation in the image positioning. These are the scans on the MoHPC discs.

[J-F Garnier]

(07-02-2024 06:18 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  71B IDS Vols II and III are coming soon-ish (late this year?) to Eric's Literature site ...

No chance for them to be the IDS 2nd edition for the HP-71 2CCCC version ?
I'm afraid that no copy exists anymore...

J-F