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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 :)

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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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