The Dept. of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) has funded work to make computer science technical reports available from the 5 largest departments:
These have agreed on an ASCII format to describe the bibliographic information and the abstracts. The records also point to a page image representation of the report, scanned at 300dpi.
At Stanford, over 60,000 entries are on file, since they also refer to reports at other institutions. Unfortunately, not all these are available in full-text form.
There are several services for searching and accessing online computer science technical reports. The first was developed at the Univ. of Indiana as a result of scanning FTP archives. The second was encouraged by the Computer Research Association and funded by the National Science Foundation; it is the Wide Area Technical Report Service, WATERS, that is discussed in an article in the proceedings of the Fall 1994 WWW conference.
Cornell has provided access to information on the ARPA effort and to a search system used with it, that is called Dienst. There are many online documents to peruse.
For more information, see the article from the Fall 1994 WWW conference and information about NCSTRL.
This system allows WWW display of page images at varying resolutions and in various formats.