Home Computer Wars
Jim Brain
I have uploaded to jbrain.com. Mike states this scanned and OCR'd
version was given to him long ago from someone. From comparisions, the
text and pictures look identical to the incomplete version I previously
received from George Page, so I believe it is from him originally.
It is available at http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
It looks like I need to do a bit of cleanup on the text formatting, but
I thought I'd put it out there now until I can get to the re-formatting.
Jim
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Jim Brain wrote:
> Mike Paull has graciously provides a softcopy of Home Computer Wars that
> I have uploaded to jbrain.com. Mike states this scanned and OCR'd
> version was given to him long ago from someone. From comparisions, the
> text and pictures look identical to the incomplete version I previously
> received from George Page, so I believe it is from him originally.
>
> It is available at http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
>
> It looks like I need to do a bit of cleanup on the text formatting, but
> I thought I'd put it out there now until I can get to the re-formatting.
>
> Jim
>
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Alan
"Jim Brain" <br...@jbrain.com> wrote in message
news:E4MYc.209359$8_6.57863@attbi_s04...
> Mike Paull has graciously provides a softcopy of Home Computer Wars that I
> have uploaded to jbrain.com. Mike states this scanned and OCR'd version
> was given to him long ago from someone. From comparisions, the text and
> pictures look identical to the incomplete version I previously received
> from George Page, so I believe it is from him originally.
>
> It is available at http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
>
> It looks like I need to do a bit of cleanup on the text formatting, but I
> thought I'd put it out there now until I can get to the re-formatting.
>
Thanks to Mike and Jim for making this available, I've always wanted to read
this book.
Is there a way to format it and remove the hard carriage returns at the end
of each line? I'd like to convert it to a .lit file to be read with
Microsoft Reader, but it comes out formatted really badly due to the
carriage returns at the end of each line.
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Teknical
with fixing some typos etc. Very slow :(... if anyone has a better way, i'd
love to hear it!
I've just finished the first file... I'd be more then willing to share the
finished product once it's done (I can convert it into a few different
formats also if needed). I don't have web hosting right now, but I can set
up an ftp with the files once completed.
"Alan" <are...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Snogpitch
auto formating.
Might want to give that a try.
On 8/30/04 11:46 PM, in article
bwSYc.122212$UTP....@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com, "Teknical"
<tekn...@nospamrogers.com> wrote:
The above used as an example. Not exactly purfect.
Dave Ross
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Teknical wrote:
> I'm in the process of doing that manually in micro$oft word right now, along
> with fixing some typos etc. Very slow :(... if anyone has a better way, i'd
> love to hear it!
I usually use a program called TextPad when I have to work with such files
under Windows.
MagerValp
T> I'm in the process of doing that manually in micro$oft word right
T> now, along with fixing some typos etc. Very slow :(... if anyone
T> has a better way, i'd love to hear it!
Emacs is quite good at reflowing text (meta-q).
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Jim Brain
> I'm in the process of doing that manually in micro$oft word right now, along
> with fixing some typos etc. Very slow :(... if anyone has a better way, i'd
> love to hear it!
>
> I've just finished the first file... I'd be more then willing to share the
> finished product once it's done (I can convert it into a few different
> formats also if needed). I don't have web hosting right now, but I can set
> up an ftp with the files once completed.
I've placed re-flowed versions of the the text files at
www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
I did not take time to remove all of the hyphen-ated splits, but those
should be easy to find and fix. I can;t verify some of the formatting
until I get home to my original paper copy, but I hope this helps.
If folks will email me back the resulting versions (.lit, .pdf, .doc,
etc.) I will place them on the web site along with the originals.
Also, the earlier files have 4 extra spaces at the beginning of each
line. I was going to remove those, but need to get some sleep.
VI/Emacs users should find it trivial...
Jim
Oh, and I was able to confirm GP did the scan.
Riccardo Rubini
> I've placed re-flowed versions of the the text files at
> www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
Thanks Jim.
Jim, btw, I tried to contact you for questions about your C65 stuff. Did my
messages ever made it through your spam killer? Never got any reply from
you.
Riccardo
Laust Brock-Nannestad
> I did not take time to remove all of the hyphen-ated splits, but those
> should be easy to find and fix. I can;t verify some of the formatting
> until I get home to my original paper copy, but I hope this helps.
The reflowed text looks very good. The only things missing are removal
of the spaces at the start of each line (as you noted) and an empty line
after each paragraph (the text looks too compressed as it is).
A bit of perl/sed/vi magic will easily take care of those two, and when
the resulting files are reformatted with the Unix "fmt" tool (which is only
desirable when you don't have a reader that wraps automatically), the output
becomes nice and readable.
Regards,
Laust
Alan
> have uploaded to jbrain.com. Mike states this scanned and OCR'd version
> was given to him long ago from someone. From comparisions, the text and
> pictures look identical to the incomplete version I previously received
> from George Page, so I believe it is from him originally.
>
> It is available at http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
>
> It looks like I need to do a bit of cleanup on the text formatting, but I
> thought I'd put it out there now until I can get to the re-formatting.
>
Just finished the book, pretty entertaining reading. Thanks to everyone
involved with making it available.
ken ross
> "Jim Brain" <br...@jbrain.com> wrote in message
> news:E4MYc.209359$8_6.57863@attbi_s04...
> Mike Paull has graciously provides a softcopy of Home Computer Wars that I
> have uploaded to jbrain.com. Mike states this scanned and OCR'd version
> was given to him long ago from someone. From comparisions, the text and
> pictures look identical to the incomplete version I previously received
> from George Page, so I believe it is from him originally.
> It is available at http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/
> It looks like I need to do a bit of cleanup on the text formatting, but I
> thought I'd put it out there now until I can get to the re-formatting.
one of the few books i know the ending before i start reading !,
i've just got my copy into my newton mk1 to read at my leisure ,
( 1.2 MB & 935 newton pages )
i used appleworks 5 to turn it into plain text prior to turning it into
a newton book,
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