26 Jun
2001
26 Jun
'01
10 a.m.
I have a complete set of Micro Cornucopia magazines. Does anyone here
want them?
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
27 Jun
27 Jun
7:34 a.m.
I've got seven responses for these magazines. Do I draw names out of a
hat? Do I start an auction?
I do not want to give it to the first responder because I read the digest
version so I never get to be the first responder.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
9:40 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
I've got seven responses for these magazines. Do
I draw names out of
a hat? Do I start an auction?
You should give them to the person that is making a publicly accessible
archive of computer books, manuals and magazines.
(completely shameless plug :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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3:34 p.m.
You should give them to the person that is making a publicly accessible
archive of computer books, manuals and magazines.
(completely shameless plug :)
Or. to someone that will be hack their way through them using them as they
were meant to be used...
;)
- Mike: dogas(a)bellsouth.net
28 Jun
28 Jun
2:19 a.m.
You should
give them to the person that is making a publicly accessible
archive of computer books, manuals and magazines.
(completely shameless plug :)
Or. to someone that will be hack their way through them using them as they
were meant to be used...
5:04 a.m.
I've taken bound items such as catalogs and magazines to a print shop to have
them shear off the binding. This needs to be done carefully so there aren't
irrularities which will bind up a sheed-feeder. Printers are sensitive to this
sort of thing, since they often are called upon to shear off the binding of a
manual as part of duplicating it via a sheetfed copier.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb(a)deltasoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: Micro Cornucopia magazines
Actually, you need someone that wouldn't be bashful about slicing the
spines off with a bandsaw and then running the lot of them through a sheet
fed scanner for coversion to PDF files. :)
g.
You should give them to the person that is making a
publicly accessible
archive of computer books, manuals and magazines.
(completely shameless plug :)
Or. to someone that will be hack their way through them using them as they
were meant to be used...
27 Jun
27 Jun
12:28 p.m.
I would suggest a sealed bid.
1) Everyone who wants it sends in a bid.
2) Award to the highest bidder, or (ebay fashion) 1 dollar more
than the second highest bidder.
Alternately, a two stage sealed bid:
1) Everyone who wants it sends in a bid.
2) All non-high bidders have the option of raising their bid
above the winning bid.
3) The the high bidder from (1) has the option of paying 1 dollar
more than the highest second round bid.
Clint
PS I agree with the not first responder... I can only read the 100+
emails at night, so I miss all the noon offers :(
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
I've got seven responses for these magazines. Do I draw names out of a
hat? Do I start an auction?
I do not want to give it to the first responder because I read the digest
version so I never get to be the first responder.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
29 Jun
29 Jun
1:22 p.m.
New subject: Micro Cornucopia auction
Because of the interest, I have decided to hold a sealed bid auction for
the complete set of Micro Cornucopia magazines.
Every issue from #1 (July 1981, 16 pages) to #53 (May 1990, 96 pages) is
here. The subheading started out "Journal of the Big Board Users",
changed with #7 to "The Single Board Systems Journal", and finally changed
with #23 to "The Micro Technical Journal".
Topics covered included software--BASIC, Pascal, C, Forth, Smalltalk,
Prolog, Wordstar, dBase II, CP/M, MS-DOS, and much more--and
hardware--memory upgrades, EPROM erasers, a logic analyzer, video
circuitry, even a complete Nat Semi 32000 chip set computer with circuit
diagrams. The early issues have almost exclusively Big Board, CP/M, and
Z80 content. The final issues have almost exclusively MS-DOS PC content.
In the middle there is an incredible variety of hard-core technical
articles.
Almost all the issues are perfect. The early issues I purchased as back
issues so they do not even have mailing labels on them. Issue 21,
December-January 1985, has "Sample for Microsystems Readers" printed in
red on the front; Micro Cornucopia was trying to pick up subscribers from
Sol Libes' magazine that folded. That was my first issue and every issue
from #21 on has mailing labels on them. Issue 29 is
damaged; it appears
that this one was on the end of a bundle--the cover is scuffed
and there
are small tears at the top and bottom from the binding strap.
End of auction is Friday 6 July 2001 at 8pm. Send bids to
paul(a)wccnet.org. Highest bidder wins (duh!). Payment is by check or
money order and must be received within 30 days (6 August) of auction end.
Shipping costs are IN ADDITION to the bid amount. I can ship via US Mail
or UPS. The magazines weigh about 24 pounds and would cost about $9 to
ship USPS Media Mail without insurance. Shipping is from Monroe, Michigan
48161. No shipping charges if you pick it up, of course.
I will repost this notice on Monday and Thursday.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
paul(a)wccnet.org
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