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<p>If Kalmbach does not have the capital to digitize the collection I think Volunteers under a master manager who holds the list of each monthly issue submitted by year will eventually identify periods and gaps in coverage that can then be filled in.</p><p>For example I have all of MR's 1976 issues except two months or so, one of which is part three of the Marquette and Independance Series that I fear that will always be lost forever. If I digitized all of my availible 1976's from home page by page and submitted it to Kalmbach as files that can be converted to PDF or other type of use on-line and others digitized the missing issues and kept going maybe our collections will be preserved in digital form forever.</p><p>Revelance to today's railroaders? I guess 1950 is still revelant today in very many ways. If someone is trying to model the steam era 1950 or whatever month and year issue would be written during that time period and present so much valueable information. I remember some industry articles that are basically recipies of how to make a product. Or perhaps some of Andy's switching puzzles that may provide additional meat and potatoes to Jan and Feb 2007's current operations focused issues.</p><p>As I stated, an organized group of volunteers with computers and scanners donating thier time and skills to get these old paper issues digital will help alot towards allowing Kalmbach pernament access grant to the contributors of the effort. Others can probably have a dollar an hour or whatever as a subscription fee to have access to these issues. We just need a Leader with a master list of every issue created since the very first one filling in and marking off each issue as it comes in. After a time he can now generate a list of missing issues that can be pulled from the Library of Congress, Kalmbach's basement or out of estate sales of those who have passed on. I dont know. LOL.</p><p>The Information Station Articles for a few dollars have the potentail for good income but why are we paying 5.00 for a John Allen article of a few pages when entire issues way back in the 70's was less than half that cost on the newsstand? Surely the bandwidth is alot cheaper because gaming server hosters usually have 4.00 per slot up to 128 players per server per month and there is a LARGE amount of bandwidth consumed by these gamers 24/7 depending on activity.</p><p>I do know that eventually old back issues will be thrown out, sold, disposed of or otherwise lost forever as people die off. I think 30 years from now no one will be left to do anything about it and collections will be preserved on paper in places very remote and likely gaurded away from the common hobbyist who cannot travel or otherwise rely on the internet to get to it.</p><p>I bet that long ago when people printed and sold magazines no one ever thought of preservation in forms that must be like something out of Buck Rogers Cartoons 50+ years down the road. Imagine where we would be that far down the road with papers, pencils and rote learning in classrooms deemed obselete and no longer used.</p><p>I will tell you there is no greater enjoyment than actually sitting down and reading a new magazine issue that just arrived in the mail. Current Subsriptions will continue. Dont worry. But... every 5 years or so, my spouse gets to complaining about all of that space hogged by the stacks of magazines and they need to go. What to do then? Digital them onto the computer and toss the paper. </p>
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