Thanks Dilwyn for your kind offer. If you could bring them to the AGM next weekend, I could collect them from you there. - another project under way!!
I haven't yet read the earlier Volumes of QUANTA Magazine so the required proof reading etc will not be quite such a bore as might otherwise have been!! Thanks again, Regards, John Gilpin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA Magazines > John Gilpin wrote: >>I am carrying out a project which involves me copying (scanning, >>OCRing, >> etc.etc) all the issues of QUANTA Magazine from Volume 1, Issue 1. - >> February 1984 to present day (although more recent issues have a >> .pdf file >> available. >> >> On checking through my back issues, I find that I am 3 issues >> missing from >> Volume 1. The missing issues are 1 (February 1984), 3 (April 1984) >> and 12 >> (January 1985). >> >> Can anyone out there help me to source these issues and loan them to >> me for >> the purposes outlined above? >> >> All processes are non-destructive and I could return them to the >> sender(s) >> as soon as I have finished with them > Hi, John > I have all three of those issues, although the print quality of some > pages in issue 12 is not very good for OCRing. > > Do you want me to post them to you, or can it wait until the AGM next > weekend? > > If you need any more, I think I have every issue of the newsletter, > bar one or two I may have lost over the years. A few years ago I took > advantage of the back issues service to fill the gap in the > collection. > > Looking at issues 1 to 3 when I went to check just now, I realise that > the first 2 or 3 issues of the newsletter must have been sent out > BEFORE any QLs ever went out, unless Leon Heller had a pre-release QL > to work from. Some of the early articles are general 68000, C and > hardware articles laying the ground for the forthcoming QL. > > Nice way to spend a quarter of an hour on sunday morning - some QL > nostalgia :-) > -- > Dilwyn Jones > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
