We could have had the CD ROM by July. ECC had two bids. One was from my neighbor across the street whose company does this for fortune 500 companies like Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Rutgers, Bristol Meyers, etc., etc. Ours would have been a pet project of theirs because of its uniqueness. The board decided it wanted more bids. This would have been MY project, MY Journals (disassembled in the prcess) and _I_ would have been on site watching the project. So, Jim, vent away and I'll join you. Newton harvey wrote: > > [Read below the initial personal venting for the 'meat'] > > A digression from the main subject. The thread quoted below adds more > validity to the need for a fast archival retrieval system, aka CD-ROM! Even > if you know a given article exists, and providing you have all the > magazines, how many hours/days could you devote to finding the desired > information? Of the indexes we've had in the past, keyword importance is > left to the [human] compiler's discretion, and is therefore of questionable > value for more intensive reading/research. A (fast?) global search, > _regardless_ of word choice is what is needed. Hypertext with B-tree > indexing are my favorites, but it looks like we're tooling for an HTML > style "reader" at the moment, with some sort of index. > > Now that I've vented, back to the original thread. Perhaps one/more of the > following references will help: > 1) Rebuilding, restringing, dressing the capo bar | Gravagne | PTJ 5/1/93 p24 > 2) Repair, capo bar heat treating | Forum/Matt Grossman | PTJ 8/1/84 p14 > 3) Rebuilding, pressure bar, adjustable capo bar | Forum/Krefting | 7/1/81 p7 > 4) Repair, capo bar profile | Forum/E. McMenow | PTJ 12/1/84 p14 > > Sorry for the interruption! You'll now be return to your regularly > scheduled... whatever. > > At 10:52 AM 2/26/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Horace wrote about the proper treatment being to "case harden" the capo. I > >remember reading about this possibility about 15 years ago in the PTJ > >(Krefting was editing then), but haven't been able to locate the article > >in years since. Maybe it was in the one or two issues I've misplaced. > > Jim Harvey, RPT > Greenwood, SC > harvey@greenwood.net > ________________________ > Docs? We don't need no steenkin' docs! > -- Harvey (circa 1984)
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