Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[Charles Richmond <richchas@comcast.net>]

Michael Hunter wrote:
> 
> Hello Charles,
> 
> "Charles Richmond" <richchas@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > ISTM that you frequently "glean" new pices of wisdom...*not*
> > gleam. Gleaners were peasants who were allowed in the fields
> 
> O.K. :-)  I stand corrected.
> 
> Anyway, the point being that there is so much information packed into
> those magazines that you often cannot absorb it all at once.  I've
> reread them many times over the last 10 to 15 years, and still find
> new things that I must have missed the last time.
> 
I agree. I have a collection of old Compute!, Compute Gazette,
BYTE, Creative Computing, Computer Language, Dr. Dobb's, and
others...and often dig for articles containing certain info.
ISTM that the respective companies dropped the ball when
they failed to offer the collection on CD-ROM.

(Heck, I even have a few issues of Interface Age...)

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