Scanning 200 issues of the Computer Shopper magazine \ VOGONS

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2024-11-28 18:30:07

Out in Ohio, someone decided to sell nearly 200 issues of Computer Shopper for a few thousand bucks. ... Now, I’m not going to have $3,000 to throw around like that. So I put the challenge out there: If people get together and give me $3,000, I’ll buy this lot and scan it it. It hit goal in about 3 hours. .... When 14 large boxes arrived, they included all the issues, put inside large paper envelopes and wrapped in blue plastic that definitely didn’t look like cocaine to the storage unit guys I cruised past. .... Debinding, the taking apart of a bound issue of a magazine to turn it into a stack of papers to scan in, turns out to be a process. A painful, time consuming, involved process. One which I knew would be involved but not as involved as it has definitely turned out to be. .... Through all of this, we’re talking hours of work to do a single issue, and I have to do it a couple hundred times at least. This is going to be quite an epic task… which is, again, why we’re down to me doing it because the combination of cost, time and effort leaves almost nobody else who’d be in a position to be able to do, much less want to. .... Are There Missing Issues? Yes, there are. Here’s the list. If people want to donate or buy good quality copies for me, mail me at jason@textfiles.com. Here’s the missing issues as far as I can tell: Everything before November 1983 1984: January, October, November 1985: October 1988: June, November 1989: April 1994: April, May, August, November 1995: February, March 1996: April, May, June 1997: July, September 1998: January, May 1999: April, July, August

Wow, that's some dedication. I don't see the reason for this specific magazine-catalog, but I do admire the effort and they way it's done. It's huge.

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