Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[Charles Richmond <richchas@comcast.net>]

Leon Howell wrote:
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> 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".
>
Acrobat (pdf) format is convenient and makes the information
available. IMHO it is *much* better than *not* having access
to the information at all. Making the information readable on
older machines should be a separate project IMHO.
> 
> 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.
>
You end up with *lots* of separate files for the same issue of
a magazine. pdf at least allows combining the pages.



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