Ransom Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Everything seems to have gone PDF now, which is a good thing. But I have several cubic feet of stored computer and videogame magazines that I don't want, and it seems no one else would want them either. Should I just put 'em in the recycle bin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafivehole Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 How old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Stuff from the 80s. Compute!, Antic, Electronic Games...you know, the usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeslife Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Everything seems to have gone PDF now, which is a good thing. But I have several cubic feet of stored computer and videogame magazines that I don't want, and it seems no one else would want them either. Should I just put 'em in the recycle bin? Post pics of what you have and someone (maybe me) may pay for the shipping to get them If you don't mind boxing them up. While it is easier to just recycle it's always nice to try to find someone to take them, just to keep them alive a little longer. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Scream from every mountaintop that you have them so somebody with extra cash will hear you and rescue the magazines. It's sad when old magazines die. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I have several cubic feet of stored computer and videogame magazines that I don't want, and it seems no one else would want them either. Should I just put 'em in the recycle bin? While I like PDF's myself, you might want to post them on eBait. Someone there 'might' want them. Heck, if you can convert them into a couple of bucks to put towards more Classic Computing or Gaming hardware it might be a win-win situation. If nobody bites, then you can always trash 'em. GOOD LUCK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Is donating the to archive.org or one of the other sites that has PDFs of them up a reasonable choice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Some things just need time cure into a marketable collectable item. Comics for example were sold, trashed, became valuable. Then people picked up on this, stashed collections and now they are not so rare at all. Give is a few years, people will give up collecting so avidly, probably a lot of will get trashed like before, and later will be valuable. Electronic magazines I think will go through that too. We had those trying to find them to complete collections and for digitizing projects, but at the moment all that seems to be in place and less demand. People will start to recycle bin the stuff, and at some point, collectors may, if retro gaming continues on, be interesting in having their own collections again. Especially if a new wave of collectors comes along. So about anything can have value. Sometimes you have to sit on things for a while. Other times is knowing when to sell, and other times is creating a market for your item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I wouldn't recycle or trash them. You're better off finding someone who wants them. I've been reading a lot of PDFs of old computer magazines, but it makes my eyes go buggy. That and I'm tired of zooming in and out to see the details. A friend of mine gave me a couple of issues of Electronic Games recently and I quickly re-discovered how nice it is to read the real hardcopies again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatta Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 If there are PDFs, your duty to history is done. Keep em, sell em, give em away, or trash em. It doesn't really matter. Those who object to trashing them should offer to take them off your hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Good luck finding a new home for these! Some 14 years ago, my Parents were moving house, and I needed to drastically reduce the amount of stuff that I had stored there. I had a complete run of Byte mgazine, from January 1987 through the end. I offered them (locally) for free -- only one person responded, and he wanted me to deliver them to his place across town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Trashing issues of Electronic Games magazine would be very unfortunate. In my experience, good condition copies are quite rare. It was also one of the best (if not THE best) pre-crash video gaming magazine). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Like some others here, I'd probably be interested in the non-PC mags... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) Couple years back I sold my EG magazines (approx. 20 issues, plus one 'new' EG issue (the remake from the 90s)), for $110, so you might wanna put those on ebay. Altogether I used to own approx. 5000 video gaming and computer magazines (most UK, some German, and some US), which I had to reduce drastically due to moving abroad (got ~2000 magazines now). UK magazines I had the most, sometimes I spent up to GBP 200 a month just to get ALL gaming and computer magazines, computers like Amiga had almost like 10 different magazines on the market, PC too. C64 had 8 or 9 different titles alone. PlayStation had many different mags in the stores) I even bought magazines for hardware I didn't own at the time (MAC for example, MAC Format was an awesome magazine). And most magazines had cover discs or later CDs too. Trashed a lot of those :-( Edited October 24, 2014 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I had a complete run of Byte mgazine, from January 1987 through the end. I offered them (locally) for free -- only one person responded, and he wanted me to deliver them to his place across town.That's painful! If you haven't yet, put them up in the Emporium! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) Since you are already thinking about getting rid of them.. The best solution is to post around on various forums and fleabay that you have these and offer them for the cost of packaging and posting. If after an arbitrary length of time they don't move. Just throw them away. If scanned copies are not available elsewhere on the WorldWideWeb, then try your hardest to either scan them or find someone that will. Another option is to hold on to them for a long time in hopes that collectors or someone will be willing to pay you decent money for them, like old comic books. ADDED: I had a boatload of Maximum PC issues, (qty. 100-200) I just threw away. Couldn't find anyone to take them and the wife needed room in a garage to put the car. And I'm not about to argue with her over a heap of paper. Maybe in the future they could be worth something - but by then I'll be worrying about things like the bathing schedule in the nursing home. ADDED MORE: I used to like the magazine a lot and had subscribed to it for the longest time. But when I grew up and got away from overclocking the magazine's scope didn't match my activities any further. I always got pissed about those Dream Machine computers they'd build every year. Some going as high as $20,000. I could never afford those back then. In fact it was costing me $12.00 a year to even think about it and be shown pictures of those outrageous machines. And it pissed me more to see that sort of wastage going on when I couldn't even afford a replacement IDE cable. I had to use tape and strategically placed folds in the cable to keep Old Betsy running. Fuck that!! And so the wife is going through my stash of magazines flipping them into a pile that started behaving like a lava flow. "Prepping" them for the trash - and you know what?? I didn't give a shit. I pulled out one of those Dream Machine issues and laughed and all that. Now that I could afford to build one I have absolutely Z-E-R-O interest in it. She said I wasn't allowed to build one now anyways, and instead I should get a couple of Mac Pros or go play MAME or fix up the observatory. What a weird set of "alternates".. Edited October 24, 2014 by Keatah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20ohm20 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I like to get out my old computer magazines every few years and look through them. I regret getting rid of a couple dozen 1984-1986 issues of Computer Shopper in the mid-90's, but they were just too big and heavy and were taking up space in a storage unit I was trying to get out of at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I like to get out my old computer magazines every few years and look through them. I regret getting rid of a couple dozen 1984-1986 issues of Computer Shopper in the mid-90's, but they were just too big and heavy and were taking up space in a storage unit I was trying to get out of at the time. Is there an archive of Computer Shopper online? I haven't tried searching yet. Anyways, what I *AM* happy to have kept were all my original documentation from my Apple II days - about 8 to 10 rubbermaid tubs of it. And some select (about 2 tubs) pre-internet marketing material for my 486 DX2/50. Brochures, instructions. A huge 2" thick DOS manual, Word manual, and Windows 3.1 manual. Some ads of early graphics cards, soundblaster stuff, some science and technical astronomy program stuff, and other odds and ends. Catalogs, spec sheets. All nice quality stuff on gloss card-stock-like heavy paper. NOTE: There is no fear of the wife trashing this material, she understands it's part of my retro material and hobby activities. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I have one years worth of COMPUTE!, and a couple of Sierra "Inter Action" magazines. For the most part, people don't really want most of that stuff. But OMNI and COMPUTE! are both pretty popular and you can probably sell them on eBay. No babies will die though if you throw them in recycling... but they're cool and might as well make someone happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Is there an archive of Computer Shopper online? I haven't tried searching yet. If there is, I'd like to find a .PDF of one of the old-style BIG issues back in the early days of the magazine, somewhere around 1981-1983. Specifically, I'd like an issue that has ANYTHING at all on the TI-99/4A. That might be one magazine that's hard to find archived as some of those issues were quite literally HUNDREDS of pages! They simply blew my mind how HUGE they were at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Stuff from the 80s. Compute!, Antic, Electronic Games...you know, the usual. How difficult would it be to list everything out? I know I'm interested in some magazine (chiefly Nintendo Power, but others as well, and I recently started picking up old zines). I guarantee you that you'll find people interested in things here if you don't mind piecing it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 How difficult would it be to list everything out? I know I'm interested in some magazine (chiefly Nintendo Power, but others as well, and I recently started picking up old zines). I guarantee you that you'll find people interested in things here if you don't mind piecing it out. That seems reasonable. I have a couple of business trips coming up, but I'll see what I can do after those and between the various holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiArcader Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Yeah, there are several sites on the net (including mine) devoted to preserving old computer and gaming magazines where if they were interested could take magazines that have yet to be digitally preserved off your hands and converted into PDF/CBR or whatever. Like you said, even Archive.org do this and depending on where you live might even have one of their drop-off centers near you that have dedicated scanning equipment. Chucking out magazines you may have that are not preserved is just moving them one step closer to their never being preserved at all. If they haven't been turned into PDF's by now it tends to indicate that no-one with the necessary equipment likely has the magazine although if you haven't scanned a magazine, know that it can be a fairly involved process. It may be they also haven't got around to processing it in their collection too. Itemizing your collection would help those people to work out what they have/don't have.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 I have 500+ magazines and would take more in a second. Where do you live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 That's painful! If you haven't yet, put them up in the Emporium! That was 14 years and three or four moves go. Alas, they are LONG gone to landfill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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