New subject: Ok, your REALLY odd question for the day!

14 Aug 2000

Jim Oaks wrote:

...
  Hello everyone, id like to announce a new project im
starting, The
 ClassicMag project. The goal of this project is to preserve classic
 computing and gaming magazines for extinction. Most of us classic collectors
 love to have magazines for the systems we collect as, in the past the
 provided an immense resource for reviews, news, insights and programs. The
 goal of this project will be to preserve old out of print magazine issues in
 a PDF format. These will be scanned complete issues with advertisements let 
Worthwhile project!  I have several boxes of mags lying around at home.  At
present I have no access to a scanner, but I'll send them to you if you want the
task.  Off the top of my head:

Microcomputer Printout, 1980 until bought by Computnig Toady (as they had
previously called it!)

PC Magazine - about three years in the mid '80s

Computer and Video Games - The year I won a free subscription.  Probably
1988+/-1

Some Acorn specific ones that I haven't sorted.

Let me know if you're interested, and I can see exactly what I have.

...
  in, as they are as interesting and have just as much
nostalgia value. Our 
I agree totally.  Unfortunately you lose this if you get electronic copies of
articles from contributors, as someone suggested.

...
  web site is currently up at http://www.classicmag.net
there's not a lot 
I'm still getting Hostname Unknown, I'm afraid.  I'll try again another
day...

...
  small list of magazines on the site now for some
different systems, if you
 know of any I don't have listed please email with the details. I want this 
Are you grouping by system covered?  Could be difficult - Microcomputer Printout
started as PET only, and went through Commie only to practically everything in
the space of a few years.

...
  before 1995. I don't want to run into a lot of
copyright issues. As always
 if a mag is on our site and the publisher, if there still around, wishes it
 not be there we will take it down, but hope they consider this project
 worthwhile and let us keep them there. 
I really do think you ought to ask publishers' permission _first_.  To say that
you will remove anything on encountering objections is all very well, but
probably won't satisfy the lawyers!

Philip.

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