Message-Id: <mailto:199511011506.JAA16232@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:00:00 CST From: "Schulenburg, Toni" <mailto:Schulenbur@ELECTRIC.AUSTIN.TX.US> Subject: Re: advice sought To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Errol,Bet you get a million types of advice on this one. Personally, I'd go PC simply because of the variety of software available and the ability of your IS folks to support it. Nothing is quite as irritating than being required to support yourself.
TPS
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Toni P. Schulenburg Records Manager City of Austin Power & Light Austin, TX USA mailto:schulenbur@electric.austin.tx.us ---------- From: owner-imagelib To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB Subject: advice sought Date: Tuesday, October 31, 1995 1:51PM
We are about to acquire a large collection of political papers. We hope to digitize some small part of the collection as images and as OCR text during the first year. The images will be photographs and text of letters and other documents. Nothing fancy. I must now buy equipment. The question is should we buy Mac or IBM? There are certain problems on this campus with going Mac. For example, the campus network does not do a good job of supporting remote access by Mac--and this project is off campus. My Mac friends tell me about the superiority of MacIntosh for images. It seems to me, however, that IBM-compatible equipment is a cheaper, simpler solution especially since our campus is Windows-oriented. For a project such as ours where I don't think the graphics will be particulary sophisticated, is there a big advantage to going Mac that would be more important than price and an institutional bias against Macs? Thanks for your help.
Errol Stevens Loyola Marymount University mailto:estevens@lmumail.lmu.edu