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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art

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scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>Years
>> ago I spent some time scanning in rare VHS covers and uploading
>> to vhscollector.com, which later fell apart, stopped accepting
>> submissions, and seems to have lost at least some of my scans in
>> the intervening years.
> 
> If you still have the scans, get them uploaded! There's probably already a
> "collection" of VHS scans that you could email info@archive.org the item
> URLs to and ask that they move them to it.

Curiously there only seems to be a "collection" for UK VHS covers,
but the "VHS cover" tag seems to be commonly used, with lots of
results. I started with some old 1980s rental releases, which are
more rare and interesting. Unfortunately my internet connection
died last night after the first one (which it loves to do whenever
I fill out a detailed form on a webpage, so I lose it all), so I
just got this done, perhaps one of the all-time VHS cover designs
most likely to scare away anyone who pulled it out at the video
store:

https://archive.org/details/ghosts-of-the-civil-dead_VHS-cover

>>I also photographed (poorly) covers of 2000
>> books, some obscure and unknown to the web, while selling a
>> collection some years ago. I've assumed these would be outside the
>> scope of the Internet Archive, but maybe not?
>> 
> 
> Again, I don't think there's anything out of scope - it certainly wouldn't
> hurt to use up a few megabytes of their petabytes of storage by uploading
> them, anyway, imo...

I guess ideally I'd figure out some semi-automated way to screen
them and upload with the metadata I already have separately, without
going through the upload page manaully every time. I know they have
a command-line uploader tool to help with that sort of thing.
Another project for the one-day list...

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Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-17 20:03 +0000
  Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-18 07:50 +1000
    Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-18 08:40 +0000
      Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-22 07:57 +1000
        Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-22 19:46 +0000
          Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-23 07:50 +1000

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