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In the home/small business computer market it was consolidation, not a crash.. Though the consolidation was more to a standard than a brand. Many many companies making PC compatibles until years later when the market itself consolidated on the brand side.. Remember computer shopper with the 1000 page issues of 95% generic IBM PC compatibles and hundreds of companies making them.

BYTE Vol 03-04 1978-04 Robot Simulation - 212 Pages 133,465,301 bytes After last weeks issue I thought I would do a small one this week so as to reduce my chances of screwing something up But hey! April 1978 was a pretty good issue.. Hands on reports of the TRS-80 and the SOL-20 and an article about creating community exchanges over a network. FEATURES OPTIMIZATION : A CASE STUDY A COLLEGE MICRO-COMPUTER FACILITY TUNE IN AND TURN ON: A Computerized Wireless AC Control System ROBOT SIMULATION ON MICROCOMPUTERS BACKGROUND THE TDL SYSTEM MONITOR BOARD: A Writer's View AN INTRODUCTION TO TABLES HOW TO MULTIPLY IN A WET CLIMATE THE RADIO SHACK TRS-80: An owners report THE BRAINS OF MEN AND MACHINES User's Report : THE SOL-20 CIE NET: A Design or a Network of Community Information Exchanges SERENDIPITOUS CIRCLES EXPLORED In This BYTE Persona l Computing: New Prospects for Art and Science Letters Hand Assembling M6800 Relative Addresses BYTE's Bugs BYTE's Bits Department of Robotics Hocum Programming Quickies Languages Forum: On Consumers' Languages and Human Interfaces Concerning PASCAL : A Homebrew Compiler Project Technical Forum: Problems of International Television Standards Avoid Self-Modifying Code Book Reviews Publisher's Note: Concerning Reprints from BYTE Clubs, Newsletters What's New? Classified Ads BOMB Reader Service Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 03-04 1978-04 Robot Simulation.pdf Cover Index

Gaaaaaa! Well crap.. I had taken the last few pages out and rescanned them after finishing it originally, I don't know what happened I specifically remember adding them back.. I'm going through the other finished mags hoping I somehow put them in the wrong PDF but so far no luck .. This mag and a couple others had some water damage and I did some extra processing to clean it up. I've toned it down for color pages for future scans but there are a few in the pipeline that are already done. On some of the later mags toning it down leaves a lot of bleed through. On the reader cards and inserts: I pull them out mainly because they are basically the same in all issues.. I remember I left them in for Antic and wondered if a single person would ever find it useful.. The same thought (should I be leaving these in) goes through my head each time I chop one up... Some of the later one there can be 10 or so cards that get junked.

BYTE Vol 09-07 1984-07 Computers and Video - 456 Pages 312,954,428 bytes We have not given 1984 much attention lately so I thought I'd throw them a bone this time around.. Spock is on the cover! Reviews of Turbo Pascal, Symphony, Microsofts attempt to make a Unix-ish OS for the PC, The Sage II and IV and if that's not enough Jerry Pournelle talks all about the AT&T computers. Fun issue. FEATURES INTRODUCTION SYMPHONY: A FULL ORCHESTRA VERSION OF LOTUS 1·2·3 CIARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: A MUSICAL TELEPHONE BELL THE WEST COAST FAIRE AN ADA LANGUAGE PRIMER, PART 2: TOOL BUILDING IN ADA KERMIT: A FILE-TRANSFER PROTOCOL FOR UNIVERSITIES. PART 2: STATES AND TRANSITIONS, HEURISTIC RULES. AND EXAMPLES THEME: VIDEO INTRODUCTION ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIAS TELEVISIONS AS MONITORS COMPUTER CONTROL OF A VIDEO RECORDER VIDEODISCS AND COMPUTERS CONTROLLING VIDEODISCS WITH MICROS REVIEWS INTRODUCTION REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK THE SAGE II AND SAGE IV COMPUTERS THE COMPAQ PLUS XENIX FOR THE IBM PC XT TURBO PASCAL LISP FOR THE IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER THE SMITH-CORONA L-1000 PRINTER REVIEW FEEDBACK KERNEL INTRODUCTION COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: THE AT&T COMPUTERS CHAOS MANOR MAIL BYTE WEST COAST: TRENDS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS BYTE JAPAN: START-UP MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS: INVARIANCE EDITORIAL: PATRONIZING THE NAIVE USER MICROBYTES LETTERS UPDATE WHAT'S NEW ASK BYTE CLUBS AND NEWSLETTERS BOOK REVIEWS EVENT QUEUE BYTE'S BUGS BYTE'S BITS BOOKS RECEIVED UNCLASSIFIED ADS BYTE'S ONGOING MONITOR BOX, BOMB RESULTS READER SERVICE Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 09-07 1984-07 Computers and Video.pdf Cover Index

BYTE Vol 10-09 1985-09 10th Anniversary Issue - 494 Pages 332,989,107 bytes I was actually planing on putting up a different BYTE today but clicked this one by mistake and did not realize it until I was almost done with the table of contents so it will have to do! Bytes 10th Anniversary Issue and it is a good one! Nice timeline of computer history during the last 10 years, interviews with Jerry Pournelle, Robert Tinney, and Steve Ciarcia.. Plus an article on expanding an Atari 800XL to 256K. FEATURES INTRODUCTION CIARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: BUILD THE SBI80 SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTER. PART I: THE HARDWARE PROGRAMMING PROJECT: AN ANALYSIS OF SORTS THE DSI-32 COPROCESSOR BOARD. PART 2: THE SOFTWARE AN ALGORITHM FOR DISK CACHING WITH LIMITED MEMORY ASTROPHYSICAL NUMBER CRUNCHING TWO GENERALIZED FLOATING-POINT REPRESENTATIONS TURBO PASCAL DRIVES THE MOUSE IBM COMPATIBILITY FOR THE NEC APC III PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: BUILD A TRAVESTY TREE PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: PRINTING PASCAL GRAPHICS BYTE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS A MICROCOMPUTER TIMELINE EVOLUTION OF THE MICROPROCESSOR INTERVIEW: CARL HELMERS INTERVIEW: STEVE CIARCIA INTERVIEW: ROBERT TINNEY INTERVIEW: JERRY POURNELLE THEMES INTRODUCTION EGO: A HOME-BUILT CPU, PART I: THE SOFTWARE THE QUARTER-MEG ATARI 800XL A PARALLEL-TO-SERIAL PRINTER PORT ADAPTER ADD FUNCTION KEYS TO YOUR MICROCOMPUTER REVIEWS INTRODUCTION REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK THE KAYPRO 16 A transportable IBM PC- and PC XT-compatible. THE OSBORNE 3 WORDSTAR 2000 XyWRITE II FILEVISION DB MASTER FOR THE MACINTOSH PARADISE MODULAR GRAPHICS CARD THE RAMDISK-64 KEYPORT 717 REVIEW FEEDBACK KERNEL INTRODUCTION COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR CHAOS MANOR MAIL BYTE U.K.: SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF MICROCOMPUTING BYTE JAPAN: A HISTORY OF JAPAN'S MICROCOMPUTERS ACCORDING TO WEBSTER: WEST COAST FAIRE, MAC STUFF. MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS: PI, e, AND ALL THAT CIRCUIT CELLAR FEEDBACK BYTELINES Editorial: TEN GOOD YEARS Microbytes Letters Fixes and Updates Whats New Ask BYTE Clubs and Newsletters Book Reviews Event Queue Books Received Unclassified Ads Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 10-09 1985-09 10th Anniversary Issue.pdf Cover Index

uff! Yesterday was another record day.. 400 Gigs of transfer in a 24 hour period.. Not a word from Go-daddy as of yet

I was responding to Allan two back from my post.. I neglected to hit the "quote" button..

Do you still see a large number of 8-bit books that are not on Atarimania? How close are we to the end? If I would have picked a number out of thin air a year or two ago I would have said.. mmm.. maybe 125 total.

Man! I was looking at the scanned books earlier today and was amazed by the number.. and still here are more out there.. I have not heard of any of these on eBay.. Its unfortunate that the current owners think they are selling first edition books by mark twain

So what is stopping you? Books are the easiest to scan.. mostly B/W, thicker pages than the magazines, OCR is much more accurate.. Speaking of preservation.. Have the APX catalogs been done yet? I don't think I've seen them out there.

I am not involved with the Apple II community so I can't really comment about the activity there.. But in general in any community (and especially smaller and specialized communities) there tends to be a core group that drive it and make things happen that in turn drive secondary efforts. The Atari community is pretty exceptional (at least the 2600 and 8-bit groups, I don't know about the ST and Jaguar) in that there are a lot of people doing lots of projects.. But there is still is a core group that kind of lubricates the community and makes it a joy to contribute. For example: Today you have many many Atari sites but there are a few that stand out and centralize the community such as this site.. For me personally: I have actually purchased several programs on eBay for the sole reason they were not in the Atarimania database. I was so happy to make the CAS files and scan the docs and see them pop up on Atarimania. I never would have bothered if there was not a central place that pretty much every Atari enthusiast knew about. How would I have even known if the program had been cataloged? I'm sure I'm not the only one that has done this..

working now.. uploaded it to the wrong directory..

BYTE Vol 10-07 1985-07 Computers and Space - 490 Pages 331,767,574 bytes FEATURES INTRODUCTION PROGRAMMING PROJECT: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEARBY STARS LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAYS FOR PORTABLES PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: THE GRIDCASE ClARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: LIVING IN A SENSIBLE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: TRAVESTY REVISITED PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: REAL-NuMBER FORMATTING YOUR APPLE THEMES INTRODUCTION UPDATING THE OLDEST SCIENCE MICROCOMPUTERS IN NASA:s SIR-8 COMET LINES IN FORTRAN TRACKING EARTH SATELLITES AUTOMATING A TELESCOPE ASTRONOMICAL COMPUTING WITH MICROS ASTRONOMY SOURCES AN ASTRONOMY GLOSSARY REVIEWS INTRODUCTION REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK TEXAS INSTRUMENTS PRO-LITE PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER NCR PERSONAL COMPUTER MODEL 4 MONITORING HALLEY'S COMET SPACE-FLIGHT SIMULATORS MAXTHINK THE ANCHOR AUTOMATION SIGNALMAN MARK XII MODEM REVIEW FEEDBACK KERNEL INTRODUCTION COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: COME TO THE FAIRE CHAOS MANOR MAIL BYTE WEST COAST: SNOBOL AND ICON BYTE U.K.: STARLIT SPECTRUM BYTE JAPAN: PERIPHERALS, CHIPS, AND NEW COMPUTERS ACCORDING TO WEBSTER: START-UP MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS: PARSING AND SOLVING LINEAR EQUATIONS CIRCUIT CELLAR FEEDBACK BYTELINES NUCLEUS Editorial: Access to Computers, Scuples or Rubles Microbytes Letters Fixes and Updates Whats New Ask BYTE Clubs and Newsletters Book Reviews Event Queue Books Received Unclassified Ads Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 10-07 1985-07 Computers and Space.pdf Cover Index

http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 25 1988-11 Holiday Buyers Guide 2.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 26 1988-12 Seasons Greetings.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 27 1989-01 Build a Cartridge-Port Interface.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 28 1989-02 Flag Trivia.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 29 1989-03 Fall COMDEX Report.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 30 1989-04 Secrets of Animation.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 31 1989-05 European ST Market.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 32 1989-06 MIDI-Music Special.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 33 1989-07 Graphics Special.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 34 1989-08 Computers Dealers Expo.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 35 1989-09 Atari At Disneyland.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 36 1989-10 Games Special.pdf

http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 13 1987-04 Telecommunications.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 14 1987-05 Music.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 15 1987-06 Programming.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 16 1987-07 Four-Star Software.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 17 1987-09 Desktop Publishing.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 18 1988-04 ST Buyers Guide.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 19 1988-05 Special Adventure Issue.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 20 1988-06 New Product Reviews.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 21 1988-07 Telecommunications Issue.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 22 1988-08 Midimon.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 23 1988-09 Getting Down To Business.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 24 1988-10 Special Games Edition.pdf

Greetings good people.. I recently received an email from wood_jl asking me if I had finished scanning ST-Log. I was a bit surprised it had not already been done.. Based on a post forma couple of years ago he had slowly collected the magazines I did not have and recently mailed them to me.. With a complete set it would shame not get this series scanned The first nine issues of this magazine actually were part of ANALOG magazine and a few were missing from my original scans so I pilfered them from a guy who had been working on his own ANALOG scans to make sure I had a complete set. I've reprocessed them here and done a fresh set of bookmarks to get them as close to the other scans. So! Godaddy says it is an unlimited account, guess we will see It may be a but difficult to get everything in the first few days.. I would encourage anyone who puts these up for free download to post a link in this thread... and if you are reading this in the future and the links don't work see if someone has posted a link. http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 01 1986-04 Mr Scratch.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 02 1986-05 ST Sound Waves.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 03 1986-06 VDI Sampler.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 04 1986-07 Function Keys.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 05 1986-08 Solid States for the ST.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 06 1986-09 GEMs Desktop.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 07 1986-10 Windows Tutorial.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 08 1986-11 C Compiler Reviews.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 09 1986-12 Degas Tutorial.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 10 1987-01 Xanths New 3D Demo.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 11 1987-02 Atari at COMDEX.pdf http://www.strikequick.com/scans/STLog/ST-LOG 12 1987-03 Entertainment Issue.pdf

Thanks for catching that! I renewed for two more years.. Hopefully it will take effect soon.

BYTE Vol 06-05 1981-05 Software Piracy - 524 Pages 337,362,039 bytes FEATURES Extended Color BASIC for the TRS-80 Color Computer The Commodore VIC 20 Microcomputer: A Low Cost, High-Performance Consumer Computer DC Motor Controls: Build a Motorized Platform Washington Tackles the Software Problem Legal Protection for Computer Hardware and Software Wire-Wrapping and Proto-System Techniques Speeding Up TRS-80 Graphics An Integer Math Package for the 8080 Using Interrupts on the Apple II System Digital Plotting with the Apple II Computer Recursion and Side Effects In Pascal DEMONS: A Symbolic Debugging Monitor Build a Super Simple Floppy-Disk Interface, Part I A File Catalog System for UCSD Pascal Numerical Methods In Data Analysis REVIEWS The Epson MX-BO and MX-70 Printers by Kevin Cohan BYTE's Arcade: Star Raiders; Super Nova; Tranquility Base; Asteroids in Space and Planetoid Dancing Demon from Radio Shack Super STEP Wordsmith NUCLEUS Editorial: How Can We Stop Software Piracy? Letters System Notes: Improve TRS-80 Disk Operation: Add an External Data Separator; Faster BASIC for the Ohio Scientific Programming Quickies: Using Page Two with Apple Pascal Turtle Graphics; Printf for the C Function Library Cartoon Education Forum: Getting Problem-Solving Advice From a Computer Desk-Top Wonders: A Chessboard Journey on the Tl-59 Programmable Calculator Technical Forum: Print Your Own Bar Codes: UPC Bar Codes With the Centronics PAPERBYTE Bar Codes with Integral Data Systems Printers; Favorite Benchmarks and Other Programs: Build a Noise Based Random-Number Generator: Fast Fourier Comes Back BYTE's Bugs Book Reviews: Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics. 2nd Edition: Travels in Computerland, or Incompatibilities BYTELINES BYTE's Bits Ask BYTE Software Received Books Received Clubs and Newsletters Event Queue What's New? Unclassified Ads Download it here: BYTE Vol 06-05 1981-05 Software Piracy Cover Index

I found another batch of magazines in a box today that had a two of those ST-LOGs so looks like they are now all accounted for!

The one missing is June 89 - has a guy playing guitar on the cover. The way mine are labeled: April 1989 #30 Label says #30 May 1989 #31 Label says #31 June 1989 #32 Label says #33 (from pictures only, I don't actually have this issue on hand) July 1989 #33 Label says #34 Aug 1989 #34 Label says #35 Sep 1989 #35 Label says #35 Oct 1989 #36 Label says #36 So June 1989 would be issue #32 but would be labeled #33 and no issue was ever labeled #32 ... Then they set the issue numbers back to normal by repeating #35 twice. They always do something to complicate tracking these things

no.. missing #32 ... I'm not sure why I thought it was #31 that was missing.

Gaa! I am so glad you had not responded.. Its not issue 31 that is missing it is issue 32! We issue #32!

Excellent! So... wanna scan it??

Hey there.. Thanks I appreciate the offer.. To be honest I don't know how long I will be doing this. I am just going until the equipment gives up.. Could be tomorrow, could be another year or more. I currently have 37 mags left to post (five of those have been scanned but not yet posted).. .I've just completed updating the first post of this thread which shows which mags have been done and those I have not yet scanned/posted. Here is what is missing (looks like 17 mags): Vol 00 (1975) Complete Vol 01 (1976) Complete Vol 02 (1977) Missing: Mar, Jul Vol 03 (1978) Complete Vol 04 (1979) Missing: Oct, Nov, Dec Vol 05 (1980) Complete Vol 06 (1981) Complete Vol 07 (1982) Missing: Jan, Feb, Sep Vol 08 (1983) Missing: Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Nov Vol 09 (1984) Complete Vol 10 (1985) Missing: Feb, Mar, Dec Vol 11 (1986) Complete 1977 and 1982 would be the priorities.. 1982 has the Atari articles that have never been completely scanned. Have any of those?

Actually it is issue #31 (May 1989) that is needed!