The Old Board Info Copied to CD?

[Edward Tinker]

On another forum, gunboards, this was brought up, and there is a lot more than jsut copying info. If it is just text, it is fairly easy, but any postings with photos, the photos must be copied and then the posting has to "point" to where the photo is.

This is an extremly time consuming tast and unless you want to pay $45 an hour, (and that is a cheap rate for a computer guy), and expect it to take at least 120 - 160 hours, it is not worth the time and trouble.

Not to sound like a know-it-all but I volunteered to scan in some newsletters and didn't realize the time involved, 29 pages (one month) take a total of 35-40 minutes to scan in, then another 10 minutes to place into publisher, then another 10 minutes to make them into html, it is a long process, not to count mistakes, screw ups etc. There are 12 issues a year times 11 years of newsletters, if I was charging these collectors, I would charge them probably $5,000 for my time alone.

Ed