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Human Power Archive CD
IHPVA General AnnouncementFrom: Richard Ballantine, IHPVA Chair, 26 September 2004
Re: HUMAN POWER Archive
The HUMAN POWER Archive is a compilation of the issues of HUMAN POWER - The Technical Journal of the IHPVA, published from 1976 to 2004. As IHPVA co-founder Chester Kyle writes in the Introduction, the HP Archive is "an essential reference to those who really want to know what makes human-powered vehicles work."
The HP Archive is electronic and is indexed and searchable. It is online, and also available as a CD-ROM which comes complete with all of the programs needed to access the index and issues. There is also a new printable manual index which makes existing paper collections of HUMAN POWER more useful and valuable than before.
The HP Archive was produced by Dave Wilson, editor of HUMAN POWER from 1984 to 2002, aided by a group of volunteers known as 'Dave's Band'. It took some two years to create the Archive. Dave then paid for pressing 1,000 CD-ROMs of the Archive, and gave them to the IHPVA and also directly to IHPVA member groups.
The CD-ROMs are available from many IHPVA member organisations; in Australia please contact