Jason Scott

Well, the head of Atari Magazines.com is Kevin Savetz, who I had the pleasure of going to dinner with the last time he visited NY, and who hung out with me when I was in Portland last year for an event, so I don't know if he's gone on the record of not liking me, and if he has, it was some significant time ago and maybe we settled things. Because right now, I consider Kevin an awesome buddy. We were supposed to see each other the weekend of the XOXO Festival in Portland, but that thing had events running from dawn to midnight and it ate my time up. Maybe it was someone else?

Nobody has given Creative Computing the well-deserved scanning love that BYTE has gotten. A true gap.

I am in charge of this collection (I work for Archive.org) and therefore can snap in replacements where they've been improved. I agree, many more than Thumpnugget have worked - it just seems he toiled in solitary effort for a long time, and I was a critic who wants to clear I respected his efforts.

Hi, Jason Scott here. I'm the one uploading to the archive. I have scripts that directly inject magazines by the truckload into the archives, as well as declaring collections and generally letting me add the issues in a pretty cohesive manner. I believe I've uploaded all currently-scanned issues, although I would be grateful to hear of either additional issues out there, as well as cases where I uploaded a known "bad" copy when a "good" copy is out there instead. I've been adding thousands of digitized out-of-print computer magazines to archive.org (and terabytes of other things besides), and of the many scans, Thumpnugget's was and are one of the best. I took some issue way back when with him both slicing the magazines open (a la Google) and then throwing them away (which I don't know of anyone else doing). But absolutely, his scans are among some of the best that have been done for these sorts of projects. So I'm up for anyone notifying me of other magazine sets out there, or if someone has taken up the project of scanning the rest of the magazines, but until then, kudos to Thumpnugget for his service. Hope he comes back!