Message-Id: <mailto:199510312222.QAA08212@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 13:51:06 -0800 From: Errol Stevens <mailto:EStevens@LMUMAIL.LMU.EDU> Subject: 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.
Errol Stevens
Loyola Marymount University
mailto:estevens@lmumail.lmu.edu