What happened to the Analog Archive?

[+Larry]

Does anyone know any background of whatever happened to the Analog Archiving project? It's unfortunate that at least the early issues weren't completed, since those are the most difficult to find.

 

http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/

 

-Larry

[+Allan]

Does anyone know any background of whatever happened to the Analog Archiving project? It's unfortunate that at least the early issues weren't completed, since those are the most difficult to find.

 

http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/

 

-Larry

 

Well I know that the person who has the archive got permission from the publisher to archive them. The issues that you see were done years ago and then he gave up on it. I don't think you'll see any more done from him. It looks like the issues that were done were done by somebody else so I think he put much effort into the whole thing.

 

Allan

[+Larry]

Does anyone know any background of whatever happened to the Analog Archiving project? It's unfortunate that at least the early issues weren't completed, since those are the most difficult to find.

 

http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/

 

-Larry

 

Well I know that the person who has the archive got permission from the publisher to archive them. The issues that you see were done years ago and then he gave up on it. I don't think you'll see any more done from him. It looks like the issues that were done were done by somebody else so I think he put much effort into the whole thing.

 

Allan

 

Hi Allan-

 

I did some things for the Antic Archive, and once upon a time, I volunteered for the Analog scanning, but never heard back from the site owner. I know it is easy to get burned out with OCR'ing -- it's a lot of work. But the latest version of Omnipage (V16, I think) is really good at recognizing. Still makes mistakes, but much better than my last version which was 14. V16 rarely makes a mistake on DATA statements. Too bad about Analog, I still have some gaps in things from Issues 3-8.

 

-Larry

[+Allan]

Does anyone know any background of whatever happened to the Analog Archiving project? It's unfortunate that at least the early issues weren't completed, since those are the most difficult to find.

 

http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/

 

-Larry

 

Well I know that the person who has the archive got permission from the publisher to archive them. The issues that you see were done years ago and then he gave up on it. I don't think you'll see any more done from him. It looks like the issues that were done were done by somebody else so I think he put much effort into the whole thing.

 

Allan

 

Hi Allan-

 

I did some things for the Antic Archive, and once upon a time, I volunteered for the Analog scanning, but never heard back from the site owner. I know it is easy to get burned out with OCR'ing -- it's a lot of work. But the latest version of Omnipage (V16, I think) is really good at recognizing. Still makes mistakes, but much better than my last version which was 14. V16 rarely makes a mistake on DATA statements. Too bad about Analog, I still have some gaps in things from Issues 3-8.

 

-Larry

 

The latest version I have is 10 of Omnipage. I'd like to get a newer version someday.

 

I know Kevin Savetz has the rights to post all the Larry Flint published Analogs. He has all the ST-Logs up already. I wish I had more time to do more. I think Kevin is pretty busy now and doesn't have as much time as he used to either. There was a number of years where Kevin, myself, and one other person, were cranking out books and magazines left and right. When my son was born that stopped for me. One thing that will help for future stuff is my page feeder for my scanner. I bought it many years ago but finally got it working a month or so ago. It would have really saved me a lot of time before. It's really nice. The only thing I don't like is that you can't adjust the scan size (at least I don't think you can) so the scans are all full size. The other issue is you can't but black paper behind it so the print from the back of each page doesn't get picked up during the scan. The only way I can think of avoiding this is to tape black paper to the back of each page but that would defeat part of the time saving aspect of the feeder.

 

I would love to see all the Boot Camp articles online from Analog. They were really good. Hopefully someday.

 

Allan

[UNIXcoffee928]

Maybe the site should be archived into a PDF before it disappears.

 

I liked "Analog", but it was hard to get... they didn't have the killer distribution like "Antic" did.

 

I have #6 right here (Awesome cover photo!). I would have to go through old boxes to find others.

 

I've been thinking about hooking the scanner up again. I just hate how much space it takes up.

 

I've had really good experiences with Velcro-ing drum machines to walls though, so I think that I'll be doing the same with the scanner.

 

I get the "Industrial Strength" 4 foot roll of self-adhesive Velcro, peel the backs, and apply double-sided foam mounting tape to the adhesive side. Works great.

 

The double-sided mounting tape is needed, since the Velcro adhesive is NOT strong enough, on it's own.

 

It's a handy trick to get more equipment into a confined area, it's especially helpful when you have equipment with short or fixed-length cable requirements.

 

 

L8R.

Edited June 20, 2008 by UNIXcoffee928

[Shamus]

I know that Analog released the 8-bit Compendium as an answer to people wanting the first few issues, but it would still be nice to have those. It would be nice to see an electronic version of the Compendium and also the Analog 8-bit Extra book that they did. Once upon a time I had both of those, but in moving they were lost.