Public vandalism

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

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.

On to the subject of this post....

I selected a few notable Byte magazines to read over the introduction of the
//e, Lisa, Macintosh, Power PC Macs, etc.

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.

A sinking feeling arose.

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."

The quicker we get these old volumes digitized such that they can be
perfectly replicated as many times as needed, the better.