Steven Bird
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Hi guys
A lot of posts to Scubaboard are about identifying gear. I'm probably not the first person to come up with this idea but is there any interest in creating a catalog of vintage regulators, computers etc. Edit: There are several sites (see other post) about early dive gear, but little about 1980-2000.
Im happy to help, but I'm not sure of the technology to use. Could be started in MS Word and the content migrated later. I work in a software development team so I could get some open source ideas how it could work for whoever manages Scubaboard.com.
So I'm thinking it wouldn't be that hard to:
Regards
Steve
A lot of posts to Scubaboard are about identifying gear. I'm probably not the first person to come up with this idea but is there any interest in creating a catalog of vintage regulators, computers etc. Edit: There are several sites (see other post) about early dive gear, but little about 1980-2000.
Im happy to help, but I'm not sure of the technology to use. Could be started in MS Word and the content migrated later. I work in a software development team so I could get some open source ideas how it could work for whoever manages Scubaboard.com.
So I'm thinking it wouldn't be that hard to:
- Contact the core gear vendors and ask for a complete list of models. Eg a copy of their old sales/parts catalogs.
- Knock up a basic document/page structure for our catalog
- Populate the catalog using
- photos/diagrams the manufacturers might provide (eg from old sales catalogs)
- Once we know the models of the gear, a bit of googling should quickly find sample photos from Scubaboard, ebay, etc
- maybe then add to the catalog things like o'ring sizes, specs etc.
- maybe link to copies of service manuals (copyright permitting)
Regards
Steve