Compute! Magazine Archive Torrent
Frank M.
Since there was some interest on the Byte Magazine thread, I've made
available my collection of Compute Magazine PDFs (1978-1994). Have no
idea where they are from originally, but the quality is good, and i
fixed some of the issues that the original PDFs had. Not 100% Apple2
related, but there is a good amount of coverage. Very interesting
stuff for the retrocomputist.
My bandwidth at home is fairly limited, and it's a 15 GB collection,
so it may take a few days to download everything. As more people
download and share that time should lessen. Be patient. It's worth it.
uTorrent is a great client to use for downloading.
If anyone would like a copy of the torrent, just email me.
frank_...@hotmail.com
Best,
Frank
Frank M.
UPDATE FOR THE 6 OR SO ACTIVE DOWNLOADERS: Please don't stop the
torrent! Even if it's seems offline or slow!!
Well, everything was running well until after i left for work this
morning, and now my IP address seems to be offline. My internet
connection can be spotty when there's a windstorm like there is today
in nyc (or when I get heavy on the P2P sharing). Have patience, leave
the torrents running, and everything will eventually download. It's
generally never offline for more than a few hours and generally auto-
resets. Also, things will start to run faster once different parts of
the collection are shared by different people. It will take 5 days or
so to download fully to everyone, so be prepared for small glitches
and setbacks along the way. I will do my best to make sure the old
Dell Optiplex SX260 the PDFs are hosted on has maximum uptime.
again, be patient... it's worth it!
Best,
Frank
macdog
I'm still connected to 1 seed and 4 peers. I'll seed when completed.
Jamie.
Gene Buckle
FYI, you can also get them here:
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines.htm
He also has 65 issues of Micro.
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Frank M.
thanks gene. a truly AMAZING link. makes me think the commodore people
are WAY more committed than we are.... ;)
my versions are the same ones from Pirate Bay, but i opened each file
in Acrobat and set the page layout from "Single Page" to "Two-up
(Cover Page)" so that the doc would read automatically like a magazine
(i.e. cover is single page, every other page is a spread).
Unfortunately Acrobat 9 changed some of the display settings, so they
may display best in AcroReader 8.1.3 (which is still available from
mac.oldapps.com). If you have 9 and it doesn't work, let me know. i
think there may be a preference in 9 to "allow document to set page
layout" that may fix the problem, but i'm on CS3 still so i don't know
for sure.
http://mac.oldapps.com/adobe_reader.php
I wasn't sure the PirateBay versions were still up. I couldn't find
them again in a search before I put this up. And of course, when I
downloaded them it still took 5 days for me to get everything. :p
Best,
Frank
On Dec 17, 12:29 pm, "Gene Buckle"
paulrsm
<gene.buc...@bbs.retroarchive.org.remove-tyn-this> wrote:
> http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines.htm
> He also has 65 issues of Micro.
They appear to have come from www.6502.org, but missing
issues scanned since June 2009. Specifically, issues
24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 65.
Does anyone have issues 48-51? If 76 was the last issue
then those are the only ones needed for a complete set.
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Maumee, Ohio USA
Scott Alfter
Frank M. <frank_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I wasn't sure the PirateBay versions were still up. I couldn't find
>them again in a search before I put this up. And of course, when I
>downloaded them it still took 5 days for me to get everything. :p
I started downloading them yesterday...aggregate download rate tends to be
under 20 kbps, but they occasionally go faster. Overall, it's about 30%
complete as I write this.
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>
> A truly AMAZING link. makes me think the commodore people
> are WAY more committed than we are.... ;)
They aren't more committed - they are simply outnumbering
pretty much any other retro computer group!
That's also a plus when newly developed hardware can be made
and sold cheaply and not for $200+ a piece.
On the other hand Apple owners were always known to have
more dough... >:->
bye
Marcus
D Finnigan
It might have access to those issues.
I posted here which volumes are available to me:
http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&thread=2792&start=0&id=24529
But I don't know which vol numbers those issues correspond to.
paulrsm
I was talking about Micro, not Compute.
joltenjoe
They have only posted 2 to date but perhaps they would take your
archive and post it?
http://www.electronicarchives.org/
> frank_o_r...@hotmail.com
>
> Best,
> Frank