Re: Any Interest in Byte Magazine Index?

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, D Finnigan wrote:

> I was wondering if there would be any interest in an index of Byte Magazine
> articles, or if such an index has already been made (I could not find one)?
>
> Sitting on the very shelves behind me are Byte volumes v.2(1977)-v.14(1989
> May) and v.14(1989 July)-v.23(1998 June)
>
> So that's every issue except for the earliest ones before 1977.
They had an accumulated index, quite detailed I'd say, in the December
1983 or '84 issue, at the back.  I can't remember if they did that
on a regular basis or not.

I suspect a third party did index it, and sell the index, I know there
was a company doing that at that time for magazines.

There was also some sort of overall index to computer magazines, I
remember ads, that covered all the computer magazines, but that may not
have lasted long (I can't remember).

You should do a websearch.  I know I've come across accumulated
indexes for some magazines (though it's not clear if someone merely
typed in an existing paper index, or did the work themselves) and if
someone has done it already, it's silly to do it again.

If it's not done, it might be better, certainly simply, to do a subset
index, and since you posted here, one relevant to the Apple computers
is the obvious subset.  The advantage there is that probably people
have kept track of their favorite articles, and it's just a matter
of collecting what they know and verifying.  At least that would
be a start.

   Michael