Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-15 Thread John Klos via cctalk
Thank you all for all of the interest. The first person who wrote me isn't far away at all and will give it a good home, so I'm going to go with him. While I'm fetching those, I'm going to make a list of other older hardware for which I'd like to find homes, so I'll post about that, and

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-15 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:54 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > > Zane, your comments are appreciated. > > I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are > OK for text, but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom > or increase the resolution. > I also

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-15 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
these  may already  be scanned and  out there.   we  have   hardcopy  and   what a  joy to  sit  and   just  look  though in  a  big  arm chair   If  you have  space   always  great to have  them in  prit  as  the images  for  displays  etc   are  better     than what usually is  out   

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-15 Thread Randy Dawson via cctalk
Kilobaud is also up on the Internet archive. https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine Kilobaud Microcomputing Magazine - Internet Archive Kilobaud Microcomputing was a magazine dedicated to the computer homebrew hobbyists from the end of the

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-15 Thread ben via cctalk
On 12/15/2018 12:54 AM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: Zane, your comments are appreciated. I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are OK for text, but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom or increase the resolution. I also follow you on

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Randy Dawson via cctalk
Zane, your comments are appreciated. I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are OK for text, but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom or increase the resolution. I also follow you on your purchase experience with out of print and search. I

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 14, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >>> There exist some people who DISCARD materials once they have been scanned. >>> Some people object to calling that "preservation". > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Zane Healy wrote: >> Aren’t these the same people that scan at such

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
There exist some people who DISCARD materials once they have been scanned. Some people object to calling that "preservation". On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Zane Healy wrote: Aren’t these the same people that scan at such poor quality that only the text is “usable”, and illustrations are largely

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 14, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > There exist some people who DISCARD materials once they have been scanned. > Some people object to calling that "preservation". Aren’t these the same people that scan at such poor quality that only the text is “usable”, and

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Does anyone know of any person or organization within a reasonable distance from southern California who might take these magazines and preserve them, instead of just selling them on eBay? On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Have you contacted the Internet Archive and / or

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Randy Dawson via cctalk
Hi John, If you have not gotten any takers, I will step up. I am in Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks). I see most if not all is online at internet achive an here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm I would rather have the physical magazine. Let me know what others you want to

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

2018-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/14/18 11:16 AM, John Klos via cctalk wrote: Hi, all, Hi John, Does anyone know of any person or organization within a reasonable distance from southern California who might take these magazines and preserve them, instead of just selling them on eBay? Have you contacted the Internet