1986-2005 RC Car Action Archives

[mikedealer]

Does anyone have a searchable database of the table of contents from the magazine scans? I've lost hours on end looking for specific articles before finding them and the significant other is getting a little annoyed Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!!!

Well people were asked to pick a year or two and type out the Table of Contents. Apparently nobody else was interested as I'm the only one who did the first set as seen above. It might be too big of an undertaking for one person to do all the issues themselves.

I must have missed that set of posts. I guess that would be as good a way as any to get it archived and somewhat searchable. Just gotta find the time for it now...

I was going to try and do it too but im just too lazy, since i posted these up, you guys get to work on them! lol. j/k. ill commit to a year if anyone else wantsd to contribute.


i was going to edit the first post eventually with a table of contents once its all done

[Lowgear]

Yeah time and motivation is the biggest factor. One of these days I'll do another year. Its fairly easy since you can copy and paste in Adobe reader. I copied what I needed and then pasted it into a post and did the final editing from there. Still took a bit of time though. It might be easier if a person could type fast.

[mikedealer]

i believe some of the issues have back issue write-ups like these below.. if someone has OCR scanner software to recognize the text for copying and pasting, that might save time, i definetly call Dec 89 to oct 91 lol

[soniccj5]

Looks like you can search text inside these documents.

I will see if I can use regain to search tonight.

[soniccj5]

I was able to search all the magazines using regain.

I am running it on Linux, but they also provide a binary for Window$.


ED

[adam lancia]

Cool! Is that program available to download for free or to purchase?

[soniccj5]

Cool! Is that program available to download for free or to purchase?

Free

http://regain.sourceforge.net/

[adam lancia]

Thanks!

[Greebo]

Seems they've been taken down.... I was slowly going through the years downloading them all... got up to 1998 a week or so ago. Now that I try grabbing 1999 they all seem to be gone

Not Found

The requested URL /rcca/1989/RCCA_1989_January.pdf was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at media.radiocontrolzone.com Port 80

Any kind soul who did manage to grab them all care to share from 1999 to 2005?

[Lowgear]

Awww man they did.

I'm not too broken up by it as mikedealer saved them all. It was inevitable that they were going to catch on sooner or later.

[mikedealer]

it appears they are down for legitimate members also, i cant download anything logged in, probably temporary condition.

[Lowgear]

Phew, I sure hope so. You still have them all saved though right?

[mikedealer]

ya somewhere lol. i have them at work, i downloaded them all on a 100mps connection

[SteveK]

I have all the PDFs that can be downloaded at home. Starting around 2004 or 05 they started putting them in pieces so you had to be logged in. You have access to the 'digital editions' from the last couple of years, but it seems I can only 'print' one or two to PDFs a day. After that they just print as individual pages, kind of a pain.

[Erich Reichert]

How much server space do they take up... if someone wants to send them my way and they'll fit I'll repost them on my server?