Re: Public vandalism

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in message 
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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.
>
> 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.

I have the October 1986 Byte pages 84 through 98 which looks like 
the whole article.  I cut them out years ago and no, not from a 
public copy but from my own when I trashed my Byte magazines (no one 
wanted them at the time).
Anyway, if you want them scanned let me know.

Charlie