Re: Any Interest in Byte Magazine Index?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Jerrywrote:
> dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> There is a Byte index of sorts, although it is far from complete:
> 
>    http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/publication/10.en.html

Nice. That'll be a great starting point to which I can fill in the gaps in
coverage. I was just planning on listing article title, author, pages, and
magazine issue anyway. Hopefully this won't be too time-consuming.

The magazines are all bound, so any conventional scanning methods will be
problematic at best. I may just resort to taking photos of the ToC with an
ordinary digital camera, clean them up in Photoshop, and work on
transcribing them. If I were to post the photos online, then anyone could
help to transcribe them.

I don't know how well OCR works on ordinary photos; I'd have to try it.

> 
> Count me in for interest.  There are some interesting Apple II
> articles in there too, especially among the 1979-1983 years.

Yeah, that's the thing I noticed: how the Apple II articles and
advertisements just suddenly seemed to "explode out of nowhere" in the early
80's.