Photofact Sets on Internet Archive

[dcl0]

Guys, I just discovered these this morning. If this has been posted before, my apologies. The Ron Patterson Estate contributed a long run of Photofact sets, starting with #1 on the Internet Archive. There may be some numbers missing (there are too many for me to count), but they are downloadable using the search term "Photofact Set" in the Internet Archive in the book section of archive.org. The scanning quality is generally excellent for single page schematics, but 3-page foldout schematics are are difficult to read on the 1st and 3rd page. Happy downloading!

[bandersen]

Wow, fantastic news! Thank you for sharing the news.

[dcl0]

Thanks Bob, I'm happy that I can have an archive of SAMS for the time range I'm interested in on my own computer. I've found that the "single page processed JP2 Zip" download option gives a good compromise between the very large file size of the "single page original JP2 tar" option and resolution for pages 1 and 3 of the large schematics. In fact, with the zip option, these pages are quite readable. As for opening JP2 files, "fdr" from another forum suggested installing "Irfanview" as a viewer. It works great! Once you click on a page, you can scroll through pages using the mouse wheel. As I'm browsing through the folders I'm wondering if examples of many of these items still exist.

[Dude111]

The Internet archive is quite amazing!!!!

Music,etc................


Thanx for sharing...........

[dcl0]

Yes if you want to hear what AM radio used to sound like in the late sixties, just use the search term "KHJ" in the music section of Internet Archive. Each file is an hour of an uninterrupted broadcast from Los Angeles, ads, news and all. A time capsule for people my age. The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, etc.

[Dude111]

But sadly it isnt analogue

[Findm-Keepm]

Between IA and the old usenet (Odeon and Albie), pretty much all Sams up to 1964 are already out there in 300DPI or better. I'm currently dumping my Sams 1-1900 (1946 to about 1977), as nobody seems to want them. I used to offer them for postage, with no joy either here or on ARF. Open requests on ARF currently for Sams folders, yet when you offer an original folder for postage only - you get the "nah, I'll pass." I still dunno what folks were expecting.

Same with sets - I gave away 5 sets, two consoles, an electrostatic set, and two portables to one guy - the only one that was willing to cross town and pick them up - every other collector wanted me to deliver a free console. Um, not happening. So sad that when I come across NOS parts I no longer need I no longer think "someone might want that" - I just toss them.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by dcl0

Thanks Bob, I'm happy that I can have an archive of SAMS for the time range I'm interested in on my own computer. I've found that the "single page processed JP2 Zip" download option gives a good compromise between the very large file size of the "single page original JP2 tar" option and resolution for pages 1 and 3 of the large schematics. In fact, with the zip option, these pages are quite readable. As for opening JP2 files, "fdr" from another forum suggested installing "Irfanview" as a viewer. It works great! Once you click on a page, you can scroll through pages using the mouse wheel. As I'm browsing through the folders I'm wondering if examples of many of these items still exist.

Most of the JP2 zips have jpgs in them as well - just click on "Show ALL", which brings up the directory, look for the zip archive, and click on view contents - two columns are presented JP2 and jpg. Click on any jpg and it opens. Use something like "download them all" filtered for ",jpg" and you can get the entire publication/sams/manual/book in pages, aal in jpg format.

Me, i grabbed 17.9 TB of stuff in the last 7 years or so, some NLA due to the lawsuit loss.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Between IA and the old usenet (Odeon and Albie), pretty much all Sams up to 1964 are already out there in 300DPI or better. I'm currently dumping my Sams 1-1900 (1946 to about 1977), as nobody seems to want them. I used to offer them for postage, with no joy either here or on ARF. Open requests on ARF currently for Sams folders, yet when you offer an original folder for postage only - you get the "nah, I'll pass." I still dunno what folks were expecting.

Same with sets - I gave away 5 sets, two consoles, an electrostatic set, and two portables to one guy - the only one that was willing to cross town and pick them up - every other collector wanted me to deliver a free console. Um, not happening. So sad that when I come across NOS parts I no longer need I no longer think "someone might want that" - I just toss them.

I'm completely willing to pay postage (and have in the past). I'm missing about a bankers box worth of sets between 600 and 1900 (what happens when one gets their collection from a parts distributor...some sets had 4 copies some had 0, and everything in-between). If you want I can send you the list.