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Article #624662Re: Xerox 1980s bitsavers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:45
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:45
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Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Peter Flass wrote: > > >> Indeed. Just moving the stacks I enjoyed looking at the covers and >> remembering the great stories. Surprizingly I do recall a lot of them. >> > At one point I purged a lot of radio and electronic magazines, pulling out > the articles I wanted to keep and recycling the rest. > > What I miss is taking out those magazines and reading through them, or > even just glancing through them. I have the "good" articles (though my > interests could change) but that's not the same thing. Luckily, a lot of > them have been digitized and I can download them, but reading on an > ereader isn't the same either. It's not like buying the magazine at the > newsstand decades ago, and hurrying home to read it carefully. I miss > magazines in general, because they've gotten expensive, and seem to have > less of interest per issue (I'm not sure if that's me, or the magazines > are printing less of interest). There are some great deals, subscribe to > some digital magazine program and get endless magazines for ten dollars a > month, I'd try to read them all, but I'm not sure I want more digital > stuff coming in. Magazines are a place away from the screen. Every so > often I find some exotic magazines at used book sales (as opposed to piles > of National Geographic and Architecture Digest) and that's fun, kind of > like the old days when magazines were cheap and I'd sample different > things for the sake of something new. > > I got National Geographic on DVD a few years ago, over a hundred years for > twenty dollars, and I still haven't installed it. Nice to access specific > articles, but not the same thing as going through the boxes uncovering > things. I have that, although it's going to go out with the rest of the garage sale stuff. You're fight, not as good as the magazines. > > Michael > > -- Pete
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