Message-Id: <mailto:199511021720.LAA11309@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:17:38 -0500 From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Re: advice sought To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
> 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.
I would say that, given the availability of monitor/card equipment like the Cornerstone imaging hardware (and comparable stuff from other vendors) for PCs, the answer is, in a word, No.
Robert Rosenberg * "Genius is all bosh. Thomas A. Edison Papers * Clean hard work is Rutgers University * what does the business." mailto:rarosenb@gandalf.rutgers.edu * --TAE