5 May
2016
5 May
'16
3:56 p.m.
Are there any archived issues of _Processor_ from the 80's or early 90's, online
anywhere?
I seem to recall it went through at least one major printing format change (from newsprint
to cheap bound magazine or the other way around).
It sometimes had articles but was mostly ads from second-hand minicomputer vendors. Most
of what I remember was DEC-aftermarket of course, but there was also overlap with DG, IBM
aftermarket, various office machines, and later PC-clones and Sun stuff.
5:06 p.m.
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Ah, I got my start in the industry working at a repair shop and I remember
that we got Processor. It indeed contained plenty of interesting ads from
vendors of secondhand mini and midrange equipment. I'm not aware of any
copies that have been preserved ... I kind of miss thumbing through it,
like Computer Shopper -- remember that behemoth? :O
Best,
Sean
Are there any archived issues of _Processor_ from
the 80's or early
90's, online anywhere?
That sounds really interesting. If you find a source, I hope you will
share.
-Swift
5:19 p.m.
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Sean Caron wrote:
I kind of miss thumbing through it, like Computer
Shopper -- remember
that behemoth? :O
I used to trek to the public library in a little town of 800 folks. The
library was about the size of my living room. However, they got Byte and
Computer Shopper. I remember one of the librarian ladies who volunteered
there coming up to me once and asking "How can you sit and look at these
magazines for so long?"
That was the same place where I'd go transcribe BASIC programs out of
magazines and books to see if I could figure out if there was any way on
$diety's green earth we they'd run on my pathetic Timex Sinclair (but hey,
I had the 16k RAM pack!) Then I'd go home, find out the code wouldn't run,
then peek/poke my way to fixing it. I think I still have a bowling game I
"ported".
The good side of that now-seemingly-pathetic situation with books and
magazines communicating the critical bits to learn was this:
1. It was easier to concentrate. There wasn't always a web browser or game
client beckoning me away to fun-distracted-time-wasting-land.
2. Magazines made a nice self-contained little package ("issues") so they
are great sources for nostalgia. They are almost little time capsules.
The nearly immutable nature of the format gives an interesting
perspective.
3. I explain print media to my (much) younger brothers like this: Imagine
a screen that is super-super-cheap, doesn't ever run low on power, has
a _killer_ refresh rate (none, it's static), is so thin and light you
can carry thousands of them at once, has almost unlimited resolution,
and has a shelf-life probably 2x-3x that of the electronic devices they
describe. Ie.. the "physicality" of print is worth something to me.
4. Plus, close to 100% of the content is usually somewhat vetted (well
maybe not the adverts as much). It's not (usually) just some 13 year
old punk spouting off on reddit etc..
-Swift
5:35 p.m.
Try Here. They have copies going back to @ 2004
https://archive.org/details/processor_newspaper
--
Wayne Sudol
Riverside Press-Enterprise
A Digital First Media Newspaper
1-951-368-9945
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Subject: Re: _Processor_ magazine/newsprint?
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Sean Caron wrote:
I kind of miss thumbing through it, like Computer
Shopper -- remember
that behemoth? :O
I used to trek to the public library in a little town of 800 folks. The
library was about the size of my living room. However, they got Byte and
Computer Shopper. I remember one of the librarian ladies who volunteered
there coming up to me once and asking "How can you sit and look at these
magazines for so long?"
That was the same place where I'd go transcribe BASIC programs out of
magazines and books to see if I could figure out if there was any way on
$diety's green earth we they'd run on my pathetic Timex Sinclair (but hey,
I had the 16k RAM pack!) Then I'd go home, find out the code wouldn't run,
then peek/poke my way to fixing it. I think I still have a bowling game I
"ported".
The good side of that now-seemingly-pathetic situation with books and
magazines communicating the critical bits to learn was this:
1. It was easier to concentrate. There wasn't always a web browser or game
client beckoning me away to fun-distracted-time-wasting-land.
2. Magazines made a nice self-contained little package ("issues") so they
are great sources for nostalgia. They are almost little time capsules.
The nearly immutable nature of the format gives an interesting
perspective.
3. I explain print media to my (much) younger brothers like this: Imagine
a screen that is super-super-cheap, doesn't ever run low on power, has
a _killer_ refresh rate (none, it's static), is so thin and light you
can carry thousands of them at once, has almost unlimited resolution,
and has a shelf-life probably 2x-3x that of the electronic devices they
describe. Ie.. the "physicality" of print is worth something to me.
4. Plus, close to 100% of the content is usually somewhat vetted (well
maybe not the adverts as much). It's not (usually) just some 13 year
old punk spouting off on reddit etc..
-Swift
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