Re: Any Interest in Byte Magazine Index?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

John B. Matthewswrote:
> In article <0cahh516qbg2f9eecu8ji37jd9v0jfamu2@4ax.com>,
>  Mike <maginnis@computist-project.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:23:52 +0000 (UTC), dog_cow@macgui.com (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.
>> 
>> Looks like there are fairly complete article indexes here:
>> 
>> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//tex/bib/index-table.html#B
>> 
>> Albeit in rather obscure formats...
> 
> They are also seriously incomplete, citing only 16 articles from the 
> 70's and few from the early to mid 80's:
> 
> 1980 (   7)
> 1981 (   9)
> 1982 (   2)
> 1983 (   5)
> 1984 (  20)
> 1985 (  24)
> 1986 (  23)
> 1987 (  31)
> 1988 ( 120)
> 1989 ( 245)
>

Right. That's the problem which I've noticed with the few indices I have
seen on the web so far: they all lack comprehensiveness. This is likely due
to the fact the creators of these indices do not have access to the complete
set of Byte volumes. Granted, I myself do not have access to volume 1, but
that is the only set of issues missing.

I could on my own, perhaps, come up with a complete index for all articles
from 1997-1998 or so in 2-3 months. Or, if there's only an interest in
articles up until 1987 as mentioned earlier,  that would also expedite the
process by truncating by a decade.