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Thank you for the bump! I think I will just assign this one as eBay fodder...
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Well that was fast
Sold! Thanks everyone.
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Atari 2600 vader unit.. The unit itself is in excellent condition - like it just came out of the box. The chords are also included along with a Joystick.
There are 70 (different) games. The picture shows a duplicate Q*Bert and another Parker brothers game - replaced with a Bowling (text label) and a Circus Atari (new label).
Anyway a starter set for someone
Best offer.. Assume there will be $20.00 shipping on top of that.
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AtariUser 09 1992-01 Year in Review - 36 Pages 27,437,564 bytes
Issue #9 of AtariUser Magazine from January 1992.. This month we add four pages, change the format to keep it looking fresh and an interesting year in review article. There is a lot of news in this issue on Ataris direction and on products like the STylus and the Falcon.
The year in review does a month-by-month goings on at Atari.. Things like the stopping of 8-bit production, development stopping on the Panther, GEnie Atari ST roundtable gets its 20,000th upload, ST-PAD canceled, CDAR505 canceled, Atari 520ST Discovery XTRA canceled (though it looks a lot like the Jaguar packaging)
News and Stuff!
High Resolution - Atari President Greg Pratt on the future of our Atari market
AtariUser NewsEdge - New this month! More in-depth news than you've ever had before!
RE:Views - Special all-Lynx review section. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, QIX, S.TU N. Runner, Viking Child, Robotron 2084, HardDrivin',lshid.
NewsAlerts
Feature
1991: The Atari Year in Review
Columns
Lynx - Showtime Lynx. What was what at the Chicago Computerfest
Public Domain - Free games for your ST-part II
Eight Bit - Taking advantage of systems upgrades
Resources
Advertiser Resource
AU Classifieds
Hot Sellers
Latest Software Versions
Download it here: AtariUser 09 1992-01 Year in Review
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AtariUser 08 1991-12 ST Book and Upgrades - 32 Pages 25,240,633 bytes
Issue #8 of AtariUser Magazine from December 1991.. No Christmas issue? Hmm! Almost 1992 and what is listed as "hot" for the 8-bit? That's right - PacMan and AtariWriter. That is the only 8-bit mention in the magazine this month besides the big 8-bit icon in the index for no apparent reason.. ST, Portfolio, and Lynx are shown a little more love.
Magazines from this time frame are hard to read sometimes. The writers and readers are holding out hope that Atari will come back strong and look for news to support that. I know from my privileged spot in the future that the only real direction is down. Sad.
News and Stuff!
Readers Byte Back - The Yin and Yang of It all
Nagy's News & Comment - Atari at COMDEX. WAACE re-cap
New & Improved - Atari Explorer on track, ISD contest, Other stuff
Reviews - Games, games, and more games ... Turbo Sub, Scrapyard Dog, Flight of the Intruder, Checkered Flag
News Alerts
Columns
ST TT - Multisync Myths and your Atari ST -Some of 'em work & some of 'em don't
Portfolio - Hardware and software upgrades for your Portfolio, B.J. Gleason's great tips
New! Games - Captain Midnight! Annex
Resources
Everything about our Ads
Classifieds, Products
Download it here: AtariUser 08 1991-12 ST Book and Upgrades
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BYTE Vol 00-11 1976-07 Core Memories - 116 Pages 68,658,493 bytes
BYTE Vol 00-08 from July 1976... Everything you wanted to know about ferrite core memories (and more) but were afraid to ask... Learn about the 8080 and learn machine language for the 8008.. make a do-everything chips and a cassette interface.. .Design your own printed circuits and yes another multi-page article on generating characters.
The "Ask BYTE" column talks about fixed-length records versus variable length records.
Foreground
COINCIDENT CURRENT FERRITE CORE MEMORIES
EXPLORE AN 8080 WITH EDUCATOR-8080
THE "IGNORANCE IS BLISS" TV DRIVE CIRCUIT
WHY WAIT? BUILD A FAST CASSETTE INTERFACE
Background
ASSEMBLING A SPHERE
MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING FOR THE "8008"-Chapter 1
PUT THE "DO EVERYTHING" CHIP IN YOUR NEXT DESIGN
SURPLUS ELECTRONICS IN TOKYO AND MANI LA
MAKE YOUR OWN PRINTED CIRCUITS
A PLOT IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT CHARACTERS
Nucleus
In This BYTE
The Trend Toward Hassle Free Products
Tool Box
BYTE's Bits
Good Grief!
What's New?
Software Bug of the Month 2
What Happened at Trenton
Clubs, Newsletters
Letters
Ask BYTE
Reader's Service
Classified Ads
BYTE's Bugs
Book Reviews
BOMB
Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-11 1976-07 Core Memories
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BYTE Vol 00-08 1976-04 Automation - 100 Pages 58,220,082 bytes
BYTE Vol 00-08 from April 1976... Now THAT is an awesome cover! I thought Jaws was released in 1977 so now I know where Spielberg got the idea for the main Jaws poster
Make sure you read the "Letters" column in this issue - lots of stuff about star trek and space war games. The article on the magic of computer languages was also very good. The rest is awesome fodder for the low-level hardware guys.A few nice little diddies from page 16:
Glorobots
Rx
A robot was having conniptions
at reading handwritten inscriptions,
but acquired the knack
by decoding a stack
of typical doctor prescriptions.
Evolution
A self-evolved robot named Babbitt,
because of his dubious habit
of unbridled mating
and self-propagating,
was housed in a hutch like a rabbit.
Hear Ye Hear Ye
The sensory robots are near,
but will not be ready this year,
for each of them tries
to eat with his eyes,
and cocks his nose trying to hear.
In this issue....
Foreground
BIORHYTHM FOR COMPUTERS
HOW TO BUILD A MEMORY WITH ONE LAYER PRINTED CIRCUITS
AARGH! (or, HOW TO AUTOMATE PROM BURNING WITHOUT EML)
CONTROLLING EXTERNAL DEVICES WITH HOBBYIST COMPUTERS
INTERFACE AN ASCII KEYBOARD TO A 60 mA TTY LOOP
DESIGN AN ON LINE DEBUGGER
I0 STROBES FOR THE ALTAIR 8800
SAVE MONEY USING MINI WIRE WRAP
Background
PROGRAMMING THE IMPLEMENTATION
THE MAGIC OF COMPUTER LANGUAGES
THE SR-52: ANOTHER WORLD'S SMALLEST
FRANKENSTEIN EMULATION
MICROPROCESSOR UPDATE: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TMS9900
Nucleus
In This BYTE
Customization-The Expression of Individuality
Letters
Space Ace Revisited
What's New
BYTE's Bits
Technology Update
BYTE's Bugs
Classified Ads
Book Review
Clubs, Newsletters
BOMB
Reader's Service
Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-08 1976-04 Automation
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I'm glad you've joined us. Just in time! My poor little server is getting hammered like never before. It actually got stuck mid-reboot earlier this morning, so all my mirrors were down for a good 8hrs. 
I wrote this before but incase it was missed (Actually i think thumpnugget is away right?). if the front links are switched to
http://files.exotica.org.uk/byte/
I can balance the traffic between us somewhat.
Updated! Thanks much!
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Hello,
I've found this thread on ascii.textfiles.com (Jason Scott's blog: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2672) and I have to say it made my week. I love reading these old magazines and see how technology evolved - here in Romania where I live we only got some rare imports of Byte, usually also very expensive, and the other IT magazines focused more on general IT news, product reviews and so on.
Thank you very much for the added bandwidth. I've updated the thread start with the new address. Also thanks for the pointer over to the article. I'm not sure how I feel about my nickname over there (Scanner-Destroyer). They are very serious about their archiving! I'm trying to figure out a costume that fits that description for next Halloween
I did leave a comment yesterday but the moderator has not approved it as of yet.BTW: One of the observations from the article said that the resolution on the BYTE PDFs was not good enough to read the smallest print. I have not seen an issue with this - I found the smallest example of text I could find when I started this whole thing and made sure it was easily readable. I could have missed something smaller... Has anyone found any text they can't read easily if they zoom up? My assumption is that he was looking at the example pages given in each magazine introduction which are less than 1/2 of the PDF resolution.
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I'm glad you've joined us. Just in time! My poor little server is getting hammered like never before. It actually got stuck mid-reboot earlier this morning, so all my mirrors were down for a good 8hrs.
I wrote this before but incase it was missed (Actually i think thumpnugget is away right?). if the front links are switched to
http://files.exotica.org.uk/byte/
I can balance the traffic between us somewhat.
Only cell phone access right now
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SOLD! Thanks everyone...
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I put a coment in the reddit post to see if they will use the direct links more.. 1.7tb on one mirror... I had no idea the mirrors were seeing that much. I figured only new people hit the mirrors on thier first visit so the spikes from tweets/blogposts/web site mentions would be painful but the day to day would be the direct downloads.
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my server is struggling today. outgoing traffic for today is 226gb and rising - . web stats states currently only 100gb of that is from byte but i suspect more. I've now rate limited the downloads. please cycle my mirror to the bottom of the mirror list
Done.. The offending site that linked to us is reddit.com .. Specifically here: Reddit BYTE mention
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Hey! 700 users currently reading this topic... I have an audience
If you read the main topic you know that there are still BYTE magazines missing from the collection that would be nice to have scanned.. If you have any of these and would like to contribute email: [email protected]
Also I am currently scanning atariuser magazine and am missing two issues.. They current work can be downloaded here: AtariUser Magazine
Oh and visit my sons websites www.threwmycontroller.com (a comic he and his brother just started) and www.ghostcrawlerfacts.com (chuck norris / WOW fusion jokes)
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Ga! What the hell? almost 800 users reading this topic currently?
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AtariUser 07 1991-11 Graphics Machine - 32 Pages 23,891,358 bytes
Issue #7 of AtariUser Magazine from November 1991.. Now at 32 pages.
News and Stuff!
Staff Bytes Back - The Yin and Yang of it all
Nagy's News & Comment - Glendale Show, WAACE Show, Direct to Press
NewsWire from Z*Net - FSM GDOS Ships, Free PageStream? More ...
Reviews - Graphics Focus. Prism-Paint, Outline Art, A.P.B, Graphics Libraries, Canon BJ-10e, Seurat 2.2
News Alerts
Columns
8-Bit - Graphics Focus. Getting the big picture on your classic Atari
MIDI - Making MIDI cheap and easy: Setting up a simple home-studio
Portfolio - Flashdrive comes of age: Real hard-drive power for your Portfolio. Tips
Lynx - Graphics Focus. New titles from Atari and Telegames. Chicago Compterfest. Tip.
ST/TT - Graphics Focus. The future of Atari graphics
Resources
Classifieds, Ad Index, AtariWatch
Download it here: AtariUser 07 1991-11 Graphics Machine
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I was hoping that they would talk about the computer onboard NCC-1701-D and Voyager.
Kinda hard to do being that the magazine article predated the next series by ten years and Voyager by 18 years
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Box Commodore 1541 Disk Drive. The drive is in very good shape (no scratches). I used it once to check some commodore disks I had and then put it away.
$20.00 + Shipping and this excellent piece of 80's technology will be taking up room at your house instead of mine
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BYTE Vol 02-12 1977-02 Star Trek Computers - 228 Pages 142,627,639 bytes
BYTE Vol 02-12 from December 1977... Hey! Spock and Jim on the cover how can you beat that? The article on the computer of the Enterprise is very long and actually an interesting read.. A small portion:
With the immense amount of data that
must be stored on line and available for fast
access, one area of technology that must
have been highly developed in the Star Trek
era is memory technology. A reasonable
estimate of the size of the Enterprise data
base is 10**22 bits. To achieve a retrieval "in
a manner of seconds," an effective memory
access time of 10**15 seconds is required
(see reference on page 180)
The comments on Paging schemes and the explanation of undocumented XF and X7 instructions of the 6502 were great..
Foreground
A $19 MUSIC INTERFACE
ON A TEST EQUIPMENT DIET? TRY AN 8 CHANNEL DVM COCKTAIL!
USING THE POLYMORPHICS VIDEO INTERFACE
SAVE SOFTWARE: USE A UART FOR SERIAL I0
Background
THE COMPUTERS OF STAR TREK
A FLOPPY DISK TUTORIAL
JACK AND THE MACHINE DEBUG
STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING WITH WARNIER-ORR DIAGRAMS: Part 1
SIMULATION OF MOTION: Part 2: An Automobile Suspension
A LITTLE BIT ON INTERRUPTS
MULTIPROGRAMMING SIMPLIFIED
WHERE TO GET BARGAINS IN USED COMPUTER EQUIPMENT
A LOOK AT LISP
RELATIVE ADDRESSING FOR THE 8080
A USER'S REPORT ON THE INTERCEPT JR
Nucleus
In This BYTE
Is PASCAL the Next BASIC?
Letters
Technical Forum: Wheeler:
Undocumented M6800 Instructions
Technical Forum:
The XF and X7 Instructions of the MOS Technology 6502
PC 77 Get Your System Together
Technical Forum: Gentry:
Comments on Paging Schemes
Book Reviews
Programming Quickies
BYTE's Bits .
BYTE's Bugs
Clubs, Newsletters
Diddle
A Note to Novice Kit Builders . ..
What's New?
Bit Status Display
Classified Ads
BOMB
Reader Service
Download it here: BYTE Vol 02-12 1977-02 Star Trek Computers
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OK! There should be a new magazine every other day or so for the next 10 days.
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BYTE Vol 04-06 1979-06 Artificial Intelligence - 288 Pages 184,211,897 bytes
Download it here: BYTE Vol 04-06 1979-06 Artificial Intelligence
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Double page sticking problem in the 159-164 range. Those pages need to be re-scanned.
(It's kind of easy to notice when the page size in the PDF is taller and you're reading in side-by-side mode.)
Anyhow, I think this was the first issue I ever had back in the day.
Unfortunately I tossed the issue out.. I saved all the recent ones but this one for some reason... Have to wait for another to pop up to make the corrections.
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OK, time to sweeten the pot
How about I throw in a Softside DVD.. These are from the Softside scans I did.. Changes since then: these PDFs are bookmarked and there is also an additional PDF of just the Atari material that appeared over the years.. I made these DVD sets a year ago or so and have not gotten around to making a batch yet... I think I made three (maybe four) as thank-yous to people that donated books for the 96 book PDFs.
The price is now $22.00 shipped to the US (I am trying to be unpredictable).
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SOLD... Thanks everyone.
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I've had a few questions about what is in the box:
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The revolutionary Aquarius home computer from Mattel! So incredible that they had it on the market an entire five months before going on to less important stuff. This is a boxed unit.. As you can see from the pictures somebody put a piece of tape on it which is very sad. The LOGO language box is still in the original shrink rap.
Read all about this 4K Z-80 machine with 80x72 graphics and ask yourself how can you not want one?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Aquarius
The fist X-10 controlled device was done from this machine: http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html
You can own this fine piece of equipment along with the LOGO box for only $31.00 and I will pay for shipping in the continental US.
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BYTE Vol 00-13 1976-09 Bicentennial - 132 Pages 77,169,682 bytes
BYTE Vol 00-13 from September 1976... And yet another awesome cover but Ug! This issue will hurt your brain. obtaining "random" number sequences which unfun looking math, building your own math circuits in hardware, A star trek trainer, number conversions with a plethora of flow charts, detailed pin-out of the Z-80, programming the 8008 in machine language, much more..
Foreground
BUILD THIS MATHEMATICAL FUNCTION UNIT-Part 1
RANDOMIZE YOUR PROGRAMMING
A BASIC STAR TREK TRAINER
HOW TO DO A NUMBER OF CONVERSIONS
THE CIRCUIT FOR Z-80s
A FLAMELESS IC RECYCLING TRICK
AMSAT 8080 STANDARD DEBUG MONITOR: AMS80 VERSION 2
Background
ARE YOU AN AUTHOR?
THE MSC 8080+ MICROPROCESSOR AS A PERSONAL SYSTEM
MICROPROCESSOR UPDATE: SC/MP FILLS A GAP
MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING FOR THE "8008"-Chapter 3
Nucleus
In This BYTE
Come One, Come All!
Letters
Software Bug of the Month 4
BYTE's Bits
What's New?
Classified Ads
Clubs, Newsletters
Programming Quickies
BOMB
Reader's Service
Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-13 1976-09 Bicentennial
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