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Another possibility is that some authors and small-time publishers might have backups of the original files used to create the magazine. Back in the late 80s, I was tech editor for Amazing Computing, an Amiga publication. I was a frequent contributor to AmigaWorld, a columnist for Compute, and various other magazines (a handful of video magazines, Verbum, Byte, etc.) Given my pack rat genes, I think I have every article on disk. Perhaps other authors are the same way. Entire books could be rescued this way. On the other hand, an author friend of mine who did a seminal book about programming the C-64 had written the book on his Atari, and eventually threw away the disks years after publication. Amazing's publisher, www.pimpub.com is supposedly still online but the web seems down right now but here's the reg info (http://206.117.147.98/getwho.cgi?dom=PIMPUB.COM). He used Macs and Quark, and might have original files, too. Of course, the reality for most magazines is that most ads are stripped in photographically, not electronically. - John