Trying to Scan All The Things gives me a new appreciation for how information-dense paper is
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Replying to @enf
3000 pages of source materials on the history of ASCII, EBCDIC, and Baudot, finally scanned and online https://archive.org/details/@eric_fischer?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22enf-ascii%22&sort=-date … /cc
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Replying to @enf
I don’t know if you know, but is there a way to download it all en masse?
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Replying to @mwichary
I don't know (there must be an API, right?), but I can give you a USB drive if that would be easier
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If you replace /detail/ in the URLs with /metadata/, there's a "name" field that gives the PDF filename to append to the /detail/ link to dl
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They are 300dpi grayscale scans, so the files are huge unfortunately
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Replying to @enf
This is perfect. Thanks for digging. Will try right now!!!
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The _text.pdf URLs are much smaller (downscaled images?) and contain OCR'd text, by the way, so you probably want that version
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Found this too late: https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/ …
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