Classic Computer Magazines

The great thing about leafing through BYTE is seeing the old ads right alongside the articles. Today, the great content gets stripped away from the ads. Yes, you can go read some article from a newspaper from ten years ago, but the ads are contemporary not historical.

The nice thing about 70s-80s computer magazines (and even some books) on archive.org is the relative lack of copyright concern: they're just out there without sign-on and checkout protection. Especially the ones for the 8-bit machines. You can find almost all the old magazines for those machines freely available, and no copyright concerns when people upload more. Even though it's still 50 years before they're public domain, in the computer world they're just "too old to worry about."

With one exception: there are absolutely no old issues of the Apple II magazine "Call A.P.P.L.E" (Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange) anywhere online. The reason why is the group decided to keep the business going. The only place you can get those old issues is from the official callapple.org website for the price of subscription. Too bad, because there are old issues I'd love to read.

Was browsing a random issue for nostalgia and came across this (from 1992):

"LAN Analyzers Move to AI" https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-03/page/n311/...

:-)

My favourite was Happy Computer: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?tab=collection...

There's so much enthusiasm and playfulness in these magazines. And it's a great mix of "serious" computing (spreadsheets and all), games, hardware and type-in listings (hey, you get a game for free! or increase the resolution of your homecomputer with just some hundred lines of machine code :)

Anybody know where to find an archive of Morph's Outpost on the Digital Frontier?

https://morphsoutpostonthedigitalfrontier.blogspot.com/

https://www.wired.com/1993/04/morphs-outpost/

Any place to see a complete collection of Computer Language magazine? I have most of them but are missing the first few, and I can't find an online collection beyond the 10 issues they have here.

What’s the best replacement for the gaming magazines? PCGamer was the closest I was ever going to get to art criticism and appreciation in my younger years. What exists now for the next generation?