And there was much rejoicing...

[ffutures]

I've just received a message from House of Fraser which authorizes me to reproduce as much of the 1939-40 Army and Navy store catalogue as I like. They're not sure if they still own the copyright, but have said I can use it anyway if they do.

My feeling on this is to go for a representative assortment of pages, with an emphasis on equipment for adventurers; guns, cameras, medical, clothing, etc.

Any suggestions on things I should be looking at? Bearing in mind that the catalogue is more than 1000 pages and I sure as hell can't put the whole lot on line.

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[nojay.livejournal.com]

I wish now that I had scanned in a Intel catalogue from 1973 I had at one time. It listed everything Intel made in less than a hundred pages and that included the development systems -- 8 kbytes of DRAM on a board cost about a thousand bucks, as I recall.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That would definitely still be in copyright, unfortunately, although Intel might have said OK if you asked.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

It was more for my own records than to publish it; I passed the catalogue onto an academic who was interested in the early history of microprocessors.