Date   : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:05:20 +0100
From   : aw29009@... (Andrew)
Subject: The Micro User

In message <195mFwPmv9710S06.1214234027@...>
          "Dave Moore" <dllm@...> wrote:


> As I mentioned in my last message, you can reduce the size of greyscale images
> from 8Mb to approx 1-2Mb with careful adjustment of contrast/white balance.
> 
> OTTOMH the size of an entire magazine (stored as lossless PNG) will work out
> at around 1.2Gb-1.8Gb depending on number of pages, ratio of full-colour pages
> to B&W etc.
> 
>> Perhaps at some point we could donate a copy to archive.org, although
>> I'm not sure what the legal situation would be like there.
> 
> Incidentally, I already have permission from Finnybank to host scans of Acorn
> User, Micro User and Electron User @ the Acorn Preservation site (where we
> have 100s of Gigs worth of [php/MySql-enabled] server space available ...
> 
They own the copyright I believe for Lets Compute! as well which ran 
for ~1 year (c.1991). Do you have the issues?

Andrew

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