Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

In article <3870AB86.ACB52C4F@blakespot.com>, Blake Patterson
<blake@blakespot.com> wrote:


>
> I would sacrafice a small goat to get ahold of even just one copy of an
>early-mid 80's "Creative Computing" magazine.  I've contemplated going
>back to my old High School, where I know they had them, and making some
>photocopies...or something...
>
> SO fine to recall in each issue, so many different machine that just
>were doing their own thing--their own OS with their own proprietary
>interfaces, etc.  The Mindset, GRiD machines, Dimension 68000, Osbornes,
>etc.  Ahhh, the memories.  I'm actually surprised I got so much out of
>them back then...I was only 8 yrs old in 1980.  But man...I surely did. 
>I have no idea what happened to them.  Or to my many A+ mags.  My only
>real treasures are some real early MacWorlds and NeXT Worlds.  I'd even
>like to have my old stash of Info mags back.  I can almost feel a
>tangible pain in recalling them.

My old school had a huge collection of Byte magazines from the late 70s
through mid 80s. Now, back then it was a REAL computer magazine. Not like
the current Byte. I remember when...Byte was full of hardware projects! I
spent many a lunchtime in the library pouring through the older issues, I
even photocopied some of the more interesting articles. I still have two of
them. "Apple Audio Processing", a simple A/D and D/A converter for the Apple
(the Apple II, there was no other kind of Apple back then) for recording and
playing audio through the game I/O connector. "A Homebrew Graphics
Digitizer" was a pantograph-style arm with a pot at each joint, which
plugged into an A/D converter or joystick port, and gave you the world's
cheapest graphics tablet.


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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