I thought (not at all sure, though!) I paid SIGAPL membership dues about a year or two ago. (Yes, I'm aware they're now a chapter of SIGPLAN instead of a separate SIG.) However, I never really received anything as a member (NO "Quote Quad", for example, even though receiving that is really why I wanted to be a member). And even if my memory is faulty and I didn't become a member immediately, the "official" statement is "Subscription is a benefit of SIGAPL membership, but APL Quote Quad is also available to non-members as back issues."
Six months ago I finally got around to trying to purchase back issues of "Quote Quad" to add to a 25-year run I managed to purchase a while back. The "Quote Quad" web page (http://www.sigapl.org/qq.htm) states (even today): ------------------------------------------------------------------- Request a Publications Catalog or Order Form, or mail your order with payment or purchase order, to: ACM Order Department P.O. Box 12114 Church Street Station New York, NY 10257 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah, ordering from the ACM itself! You can imagine my shock when my inquiry letter was returned by the US Postal Service, stating: RETURN TO SENDER BOX NO LONGER SERVICED HERE What?! The ACM Order Department gone? Is the ACM teetering on the brink of disappearing? The ACM web site seems to indicate otherwise, but I see no way of purchasing back issues of anything. I'm sure many or most of you are members of SIGAPL. How do I purchase back issues of "Quote Quad" from SIGAPL or ACM? I really would like to get hold of these. I'm talking several years' worth of back issues: vol. 32, no. 1 to present (based on the QQ web page, it appears that vol. 35, no. 3 may have been the final issue, but I'm not sure of that). I'm really serious about acquiring the more recent volumes and issues (I believe one or two issues each year were "conference" issues, and I'm including them in this request as well), so if any of you are willing to part with these, please contact me. Whether from SIGAPL/ACM or from you, I'd really like to fill in the "missing" issues noted above. And, if anyone would like to dispose of volumes 1 to 5 (not sure if too many people go back that far), I would be very interested in acquiring those as well. Thanks in advance for any info you can share! Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
