Re: Public vandalism

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On Dec 7, 11:31 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> Michael Blackwrote:
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> > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, D Finnigan wrote:
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> >> I took a look at the bound Byte volumes just a few moments ago to see
> >> what
> >> the tables of contents look like. Most are just one page, with a few
> >> two-pagers. So my idea to use take a good photo of each should turn out
> >> well.
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> >> On to the subject of this post....
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> >> I selected a few notable Byte magazines to read over the introduction of
> >> the
> >> //e, Lisa, Macintosh, Power PC Macs, etc.
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> >> I went to the volume which held the October 1986 issue of Byte which
> >> features the IIgs introduction article. I scanned the ToC and saw that
> >> the
> >> IIgs intro article was on page 84. Ok. I flipped around and ended up at a
> >> block of ads. The next page was 104, the start of some other article. I
> >> flipped back past the ads... back to an article on page 70-something. I
> >> checked the ToC again... flipped back past the pages more carefully.
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> >> A sinking feeling arose.
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> >> I examined the binding carefully and I found that the smallest stubs of
> >> the
> >> pages were still clinging to the binding. Someone had torn out the entire
> >> Apple IIgs article from this Byte magazine. This was probably done years
> >> ago
> >> by some Apple fanatic, but impresses upon us all the fact that even
> >> libraries can suffer "data loss."
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> >> The quicker we get these old volumes digitized such that they can be
> >> perfectly replicated as many times as needed, the better.
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> > Just because the Apple IIGS article is missing doesn't mean it's a
> > horrible event.
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> You're right. It's not really world-ending. But my point is that if it can
> happen to some now-obscure computer article, it could happen to anything. It
> could happen to books of much greater significance which are just freely
> available to anyone on the open shelves. Not every rare/valuable book is
> locked away in some basement storage vault.
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> > In other words, you're actually lucky that those Byte volumes are still
> > in the library.
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I'm sure what you seek is out there.  If anybody has it -- it would be
Rubywand.

Cheers!
Tom