Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[puritan_2076@yahoo.com (Leon Howell)]

> Hello all,

Hello.

> I recently started looking into archiving old computer magazines on a
> website.  One of my favorite magazines was Compute!, as well as some
> of their books.  But there are other magazines out there as well.
> Personally I am a long-time user of the Apple II series, but I wanted
> to inquire to users in these groups that have other computers as well,
> to see if there was a broad interest in this.  I would think there
> would be a use for having some of these old publications in digital
> format, online.

I know pdf is a popular format, but unless there's a pdf reader for
Apple, (or Commodore, Atari, T.I., TRS-80, etc.) I would suggest a
format our old machines can read. I just fled from a pc xt and won't
be going back; there are probably many out there who still have and
use the real thing, (even some who, unlike me, had sense enought to
stay away from the junk!) and would like to read the magazines on
there favorite computer instead of the one they "have to have for
business/internet/whatever".

I suggest GIF. It's an old format, and I know there are readers for
the CoCo 3 and C=64/128, probably also Apple.

If you have the recources, it would be nice to do both, but I know
that takes a lot of space.