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many thanks for the nice TIF example.
the most big problem is your band limit I think, maybe it could be better if you will try to scan them at 600dpi but in Grey not color? could it be better about Mb per file?
otherwise, maybe also to scan all them and send me into a DVD could be a better solution for you ?

the crossed out issue is minimal for me, i can clean it easily

for the other two the solution is to rewrite at least the parts too light and also the parts too dark.
I already restored using this solution for some other magazine pages. Find the same font (or a very similar one) and re-write all the parts.
Important is that the text is still readable or at least we can understand which word could be under the dark or the too light parts.

This is an hard work, I know, but I thing that it could be the way to preserve these issues. I never seen a 5 and 6 around internet, I think they are very rare too... 
Know you how much issues of TI USER newsletter have been published?

Ciro

example for restored text when it is too light

Thanks for your response.  Nice clean up.

Moving up to 600dpi even going to grayscale still leaves us at 17MB per page.  If compression is used this drops to 9MB per page.  Samples of each are attached for examination.

I would put the magazines in the mail but if they were lost in the mail  they would no longer be available...

A data DVD sounds like an idea to go for. I think the two magazines would fit onto a single DVD+R.    It would take a little while to scan and burn and I would need your address to send them to.

Now that the UK is no longer in the EU I would need to stick a customs declaration on- I don't know Italian law in such matters but if I sent a DVD  as a  Gift with a value of £1 that might avoid you having to pay duty/sales tax.

I have the customs label here but would have to go to our post office to get the stamp which is slightly hazardous due to the unventilated tiny nature of the place but I have now had both vaccinations and time inside should be short. 
 
 If the compressed image is one you could work with we are looking at downloading at about 10 pages per week via AA IM for four weeks - safer than going to the post office. See what you think of the result of the compressed imaged attached. I have various compression forms available, this TIF image has been produced using LZW compression which is much better than the better known jpg compression. The image can be viewed with your usual TIF viewer.
 
Magazines disappeared with no notice and little fanfare- I have not heard of these two issues apart from the copies I have, so I would classify them as extremely rare. I cannot recall where I got them from.
 
 best wishes    stephen
 
 
 Best wishes

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Hi!

Thank you so much for the compliment about my website :-)

That could be great to see more detailled pictures about this 99/4 prototype!  Thank you by advance!

Kind regards,

Fabrice

Welcome to AA. TI99/4's are cool machines.

I *love* the 99/4A! It was my very first computer; I probably got mine in 1982 as well. I still have a decent collection of 99/4A gear, although it's been a while since I've hooked it up.