10-13-2025, 07:10 AM
Last year, a group called DLARC, around ham radio and radio technology, worked with me and the archive to sort four pallets of the manuals for products related to the history of radio/network technology, and off they went overseas to be scanned. And as of this month, the evaluated, professionally-scanned and available-to-the-world manuals are finished, except for a few stragglers. The loop has closed!
The company doing the digitizing does lots of digitizing for the Internet Archive
They are well-paid and legitimate professional contractors who are sent the items, and who do careful scanning to the best of the materials’ ability to provide access to the information, and then do quality checks, and then upload them. When they’re humming, they’re processing a pallet every couple of weeks (with lots of mitigating factors).
I’ve negotiated a situation where, if money is sent in
The remaining pallets that should be scanned can just be sent along without sorting them for DLARC funds, DLARC will fund any that happen to overlap with their mission, and the rest will just be done.
That’s if money is sent in.
How much money? The number approaches hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I’m looking for both big-ticket supporters or individuals.
If we make less than we need to scan them
All, then we’ll only scan up to where it’s paid for. I believe we can close it out, but if the interest/money isn’t there, then it isn’t there – fair enough. Browse the collection as it grows into thousands of manuals as it is and consider if you want to be part of all that. That’s definitely happened.
contact us
Physical address: Blk 34 Lot 5 Easthomes 3 Subd., Estefania, Bacolod City, Philippines,6100 Negros Occidental
Phone: +639858085805
Email: [email protected]
https://phonelist.io
The company doing the digitizing does lots of digitizing for the Internet Archive
They are well-paid and legitimate professional contractors who are sent the items, and who do careful scanning to the best of the materials’ ability to provide access to the information, and then do quality checks, and then upload them. When they’re humming, they’re processing a pallet every couple of weeks (with lots of mitigating factors).
I’ve negotiated a situation where, if money is sent in
The remaining pallets that should be scanned can just be sent along without sorting them for DLARC funds, DLARC will fund any that happen to overlap with their mission, and the rest will just be done.
That’s if money is sent in.
How much money? The number approaches hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I’m looking for both big-ticket supporters or individuals.
If we make less than we need to scan them
All, then we’ll only scan up to where it’s paid for. I believe we can close it out, but if the interest/money isn’t there, then it isn’t there – fair enough. Browse the collection as it grows into thousands of manuals as it is and consider if you want to be part of all that. That’s definitely happened.
contact us
Physical address: Blk 34 Lot 5 Easthomes 3 Subd., Estefania, Bacolod City, Philippines,6100 Negros Occidental
Phone: +639858085805
Email: [email protected]
https://phonelist.io