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Posting scans of the papers you mention could bolster your argument. I'm terribly curious

One of my goals at the moment is trying to see if the original source material is available. As far as I know they were sent to a Canadian archive, possibly civilian, possibly military just before or just after the death of the person I got my copies from. I am interested in seeing the original papers to try and get a handle on what was being proposed.

The copies I have are partially edited and incomplete, which is why I would like to get access to the source material. I am just having difficulty trying to track down where this stuff is. As a consequence, I am having to search through all of my off-line archives for any relevant information. After 20 or more years, that is a lot of material to go through.

As I was saying to someone in recent days, I have between 500 and 1500 papers and books that I want to read and these are just the ones I currently have on-line. just looking for any one paper that I am interested can take quite a while to find. Let alone all the off-line papers and books that I am interested in reading.

So, when I do get access to this material, I will be trying to get it online to the general community even if it is only scans.

Do you happen to know if any of this mysterious researcher's papers might be on the arxiv?

And have you looked into automated digitizing machines for your collection? The University of Tokyo seems to have a pretty good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ccxwNssmo :)

No. Both the original author and the gentleman providing exposure were both dead before arxiv was a thing. Unless, one of the various scientists who were involved in looking at the subject matter has put it in an available spot, I don't think that there are any publicly available sources. Though, I can try and see if the Wayback machine has any copies. That will require me looking at my off-line records though and that will take some time.

That is a neat little machine. Thanks for that.

Hey, I am also very interested in these documents. When I wanted to scan some of my university courses and other stuff for preservation, I just bought a second hand printer/scanner combination, and paid attention to choose a model with ADF (automatic document feeder), occasionally it jams and I have to restart a batch, but it goes quicker than you think even if the ADF only supports ~30 pages or so.

Could you at least mention the name of the original author? What makes you think the notes were sent to an archive?

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