I'm gonna be busy!

[Jim DiSpagno]

Great job Chuck. Do you have a ballpark figure on the cost of a disk? Wouldn't that decrease the number of requests for letters? What would prevent a person from providing letters once they purchased the disk? I know you would try to offset the cost of this equipment with sales of the disk but now you are the only game in town and that's a good thing.

[edgarspencer]

I'll take 217404 Please.
Are the columns to the right of the weight legible? I remember you showing these to us, and If I recall, you said these were the photocopies of the original books done at Remington.
The quality is quite good.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Now once all this stuff is downloaded will it become available to be purchased on a disk ? By that I mean the entire thing ?

Originally Posted by Jim DiSpagno

Great job Chuck. Do you have a ballpark figure on the cost of a disk? Wouldn't that decrease the number of requests for letters? What would prevent a person from providing letters once they purchased the disk? I know you would try to offset the cost of this equipment with sales of the disk but now you are the only game in town and that's a good thing.

I don't think Chuck ever said the discs would be available, and I, for one, would be opposed to that. The Official PGCA letter is one of the few sources of income, and when you consider that the Newsletter is nearly the cost of an annual membership, Letter sales, along with the Raffle Gun, and Silent Auction are pretty important.

[Craig Larter]

I know what a task you have. I had the AH Fox records digitized. We had about 5000 pages 11x14. Thanks for your efforts!

[B. Dudley]

It is great that we are moving in this direction. Save on bookcase space.

[Pa SxS]

Edgar, you are correct on the revenue sources. The columns which include stock dimensions and columns to the right of it looks to have been filled in by pencil and are very faded. Hopefully I can read the data for the letter. Info to the right of the weight column just contain month and day a procedure was completed. The date is sometimes helpful to determine completion date for the letter. BTW, the frame size is listed in this style stock book. Note the 1/2 frame size is not a true 1/2 frame but a 1 1/2 frame. The earlier style stock books don't list frame sizes.

[Pa SxS]

Craig, we were worried auto feed would gobble up and possibly destroy the pages plus many of our pages have edges folded over. We couldn' afford to take that risk since the chance of getting another access to the originals is slim.

[Craig Larter]

Chuck: Our records were copied on 11x14 paper so I had them run through a large hi speed auto feed copy machine (printer) which have the capability of making individual pdf files for each page as well as a paper copies. I had a local printer do it and the cost was under $2k.

[Dean Romig]

Gentlemen All:: - The digitized recording that Chuck is doing is for secure record-keeping only in the case that our copies of the books become damaged or destroyed. They will never be made available in any form other than a PGCA Reseach Letter.

Research Letters are the PGCA's primary source of operating revenue and the only data we have for the Research Letters is taken entirely from these records.






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[Phil C]

It's great to have the records backed up electronically. Natural disasters do occur. Paper wears and ink fades. There is no guarantee that if these records or part of the records were destroyed Remington would ever let the records be copied again. A great proactive move.
If even one copy was sold, before you wold know it would be on the Internet.