6 Nov
2008
6 Nov
'08
4:53 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I'm not sure about phonebook-sized; the first few issues look to be the size
of a 'normal' magazine - although I think I do vaguely remember the mag
getting pretty huge in the early 90s.
The collection we were offered is/was pretty complete - issue 1 to the present
day, with just a few missing; the problem is that it's a huge about of storage
space for something that would very rarely be required as a reference, and
there are more important machine/manufacturer-specific things needing shelf
space.
It's hard to justify accepting - but at the same time the museum is the
logical first port of call for anyone looking for a Computer Shopper mag (for
whatever reason). Having scans of them all solves the problems nicely...
cheers
Jules
Jules Richardson wrote:
Wait... Are you guys talking about scanning Computer Shopper from back
when it was the size of a phonebook? It seems to me that that era
contains the most vintage-interest. That's a really good idea - thanks. (I'm
now trying to work out if
computershopper.com is anything to do with the magazine - hard to
tell. Plus there seem to be two different sites claiming to be for
computer shopper magazine subscriptions - which makes me think that
at least one of them must be bogus!)
Assuming the museum has the UK magazine
(which is a reasonable
assumption) the computershopper.com is not it; either that or they've
been getting away with "theater" for far too long :-)
I do have one or two copies of that rag^H^H^Hmag somewhere, but nowhere
convenient right now. I assume that, if it has a homepage, this one is
more likely: http://www.computer-shopper-magazine.co.uk/. It certainly
looks more like the covers that I remember (and that "?" price seems
a good hint too).