Computer Shopper scans: definitely worthy

Jeff Jonas ????????: I found it far more consistently interesting than the ACM's journal. It was the Sears Catalog and Farmer's Almanac for computing at the time, a broader overview of computer technology than any journal ever was and it followed the changes in applied technology. That is what makes it historically significant, like Nuts-n-Volts, QST, and quite a few other technical rags. It has information you can't find anywhere else. Just because it's full of adverts does not make it unworthy of preservation. A quick and cheap alternative to chemically preservation is to keep the paper very dry. This will drastically slow the oxidation of the paper by the acid. This could be done with a hermetically sealed container and effective dehumidifying compounds or by purging the container with dry nitrogen. == jd --