Computer documentation, was: [SCG] Call for materials - Club inventory

[Kent Sullivan]

Hi,

All of my original literature is listed here:

http://www.corvairkid.com/literature.asp

And, for reprints and other, non-original stuff:

http://www.corvairkid.com/literature.htm

You can filter the first list to see just parts books, just shop manuals,
etc. There is some interesting stuff on the second list too--stuff I have
not been able to find an original copy of yet.

--Kent
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Subject: Computer documentation, was: [SCG] Call for materials - Club
inventory

Bill and all,

As noted below in my response, I have been documenting various items via
computer spreadsheets. Just in the last couple of days, I, with Dave
Newell's assistance, have identified a special tutone coding designation
on the window stickers of '65-7 cars, one that neither of us had fully
realized and something that might have remained in obscurity if not lost
forever, had it not been for my research project.

My thoughts are that not only are such things important to document
(Dave and I probably have the only two examples showing the
aforementioned code) with pictures and/or photos, but also to expand the
access via the inclusion of it in comprehensive spreadsheets and
computer-searchable files. I've been working on just such files,
documenting options, paint and trim colors, and all the codes
appertaining to them that I can find. I'm also documenting window
sticker data, with the intent that someone could actually use the file
to print out a good facsimile of any window sticker. My option file is a
searchable file that can produce a list of all possible options for any
given car.

Perhaps other data could be committed to computer file in this manner,
so that we will eventually have a number of computer file records at our
fingertips, possibly even making them available on disc.

-Mark C

P.S. If anyone wants to see my files, as they are to date, and might
have some additional info that could help add to the database, please
email me directly. See my below original post for what I already have
and are working on.

Bill Hubbell wrote:
> 
> 3) Identify resources that may be in danger of being discarded (due to
> membership aging, etc.) and secure them for future use.
> 4) Begin the process of determining how best to preserve such material for
> future users (Central Library?  Digital Library? Etc.)
> 
> 
> Computer files that I have been working on have documented 1)all the
> color and trim options available in all years of cars, plus GB (and the
> rest of the trucks AFAIK); 2) all the car options for all the models and
> years, in a searchable format; 3) and am working on a window sticker
> reproduction file. I have almost completed the '67 file, and am close on
> the '69 file.
> 
> -Mark Corbin

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