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Wow, Robert, this will be fabulous!!! I have always wanted to see more of the sales brochures, and there are no books out there that show these... it will make this site an even more valuable and fun resource! And I only have a handful of brochures myself, stoves and fridges, but I'll try to take a photo and send that to you for consideration... as for scanning myself, don't worry, all of what you do is WAY over my computer skills! Thanks thanks thanks!
 
I CAN HARLDY WAIT !!!!

I'll send you the 58 Easy Spin manual we talked about yesterday. Darrel's mailing it back to me today.

 

THANK YOU, ROBERT

 

 

PS: The Frigi icon is so cool. Were you torn between that and the 49 GE?
 
Robert Truly bless your heart, I do know the hard work ... I had to sit in an office because all the crap was heavy and very Primitive I would scan at work and then go out on my boat with a laptop and paint shop pro them out there ... I too have burned out scanners that made me laugh

Both of you guys are just working so hard to better and better the site and keep it civil.

Thank you

Philippe
 
Thanks to everyone for your kind words and support.

PS: The Frigi icon is so cool. Were you torn between that and the 49 GE?
Thanks Mike, no I was looking for a picture of a dispenser of some sort and during my scanning I found one that fit. The logo is still a work in progress, although I think is pretty good now. The "Daily Doctrine" font was literally done by cutting out individual letters from headings in a 1960s Frigidaire owners manual and the Dispenser font is of course one of the main fonts I use on the site.

What I really had a problem with was figuring out what to name the thing. I knew I wanted Daily in it and I wanted a washer term so I came up with Dispenser. What I couldn't figure out was what to call the stuff. I came up with Daily Library Dispenser and Daily Reading Dispenser, but I didn't think those flow very well. Then Fred mentioned "Doctrine" like Jetcone Jon uses in a cute way to describe vintage service manuals and I thought that's perfect, yay Fred. That's how the name was born.
 
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I think the issue you have with B&W Pdfs is the quality of the stuff going in.  I expect the stuff Robert presents will be nothing short of perfect.  I've done a small amount of scanning and I know how difficult it is to get everything correct, no crooked scans, proper lighting, watching for bleed through from the other side, airbrushing out flaws and creases and on and on.

 

As Robert stated he is creating archival quality stuff, and as all can see from the care he put into developing and writing the code for this website he is very meticulous.  So don't discount the quality of the product....
 
To the Hard Working Robert

Robert,

I apologize if I offended you.

I can understand that co-locating servers isn't for everyone, especially if you don't really have an IT infrastructure background. (I don't know what your background is, so I apologize if you do, you sound like you could work in the IT industry as a developer.)

I know it's a moot option to discuss, but I do feel a little hurt that you think I would just ship you a bunch of junk to run the site on. I didn't have any other place to store it right now, otherwise it would be in my basement instead.

As you know, there are many other solutions out there which are much more cost effective and have better value for the money than the one which you are using now. I'll be glad to help you find them when the time is right.

I do highly appreciate that you've sunk so much time and money into this. For that, I would like to let you know I'm very grateful.

My comment about the 1 terabyte drive was supposed to be taken in a facetious manner. I apologize for the misunderstanding. I did not mean it as an insult, a sign of disrespect or a show of a lack of appreciation for the hard work you've done so far. If you wanted $2000 for that collection for example, I'd understand. You don't need to justify that as I understand your time is just as valuable as mine.

If you don't want to take my advice, I can understand and respect that. However, I would like to offer my help, should you ever need it.

You know, I've re-edited this post a few times now.. Even though I can build web servers in my sleep, I realize I sound like a mechanic who wonders why on Earth anyone would pay for repairs on their car. This is what hosted web services are like to me.

Robert, when you want to go down this road again, feel free to start asking me questions. I wouldn't mind spending a few hours building up a virtual server for you and teaching you how to maintain it. It's not as painful or as time consuming as you think it may be, once all of the initial work has been done. [this post was last edited: 3/23/2012-06:03]
 
Hi Qualin, thank you for your apology and I appologize as well.  Sometimes the written word is hard to interpert the tone of how someone is presenting something, and it appears I misunderstood you.
 
I appreciate your further explanation of what co-locating servers means. At some point in the future when I'm a little less busy the extra work might be something I'll consider. Right now managed VPS hosting services is my only and best option. But in the future I will certainly contact you for further information if I decided to go the co-locating route.

Thank you again!
 
so how will someone who joins several years from now be able to access any of this treasure trove?
 
Hi Roger, these will be rotating like the picture of the day, depending on how many we have loaded into the system, each document will most likely come up multiple times per year.
 
Are you "ranging" afield to include esoteric stoves and such, so to speak? Got some cool old Chambers pieces.

Hi Roger, absolutely! Any vintage colorful sales literature for any product for the home is up for use in the Dispenser. Chambers ranges brochures, owners manuals or service manuals would be a wonderful addition!
 
I have service manuals for the Maytag Neptune washer and dryer models I could contribute.

Thank you Jason, I certainly do appreciate your offer. Unfortunately materials that were published after 1988 are automatically copyrighted :-(. We are only going to be allowed to post things that are not under copyright status, meaning either they were never copyrighted in the first place (many pre-1989 materials fall into this category) or the copyright has expired and was not renewed (the majority of pre-1964 materials fall into this category).
 
Licensing the material

Hey Robert, have you considered looking into getting authorization from the copyright holders to use the material? Perhaps they might even be willing to sell the rights to you on the items they no longer need, for a reasonable fee.

Perhaps this might be too time consuming and costly, but I though I would suggest it.

Thanks again for this great website!
 
Thanks, Robert (and Fred)

This new feature sounds great. Thank you for all your time and effort to preserve history and allow so many to enjoy it.
 
Hey Robert, have you considered looking into getting authorization from the copyright holders to use the material?

At some point that might be an definite option Tom, but for now there are literally thousands of things that are in the public domain, I would like to start there and see how this project goes.
 
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