University Microfilm is now "UMI" (www.umi.com). They have tons of serials
on Microfilm, e.g. see
http://wwwlib.umi.com/sim/menu There's a lot to
wade through and it ain't cheap, but they've probably got most popular
magazines from the 70's and 80's out there (they have 19,000 periodicals;
7,000 newspapers). Byte and Kilobaud are listed as are many more "oldies"
(they have Radio-Electronics going back to 1929!). For some serials they
offer individual copy or article copy capability. Their main customers are
libraries of course.
- glenn
At 04:39 PM 5/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 May 1997, Doug Spence wrote:
>
>> BTW, is it possible to purchase complete collections of BYTE magazine on
>> Microfiche, etc? And for what kind of frightening sum? I'm afraid I
>> don't have a collection of those... only a single magazine from 1982, then
>> my next issue features the Amiga 3000. :/
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>I do remember ads in the back of Byte, Kilobaud and other magazines saying
>that those publications were available in Microform. The ads were from,
>IIRC, a company called University Microfilms in [break to search the web]
>Ann Arbor, MI -- no web site indicated. The library in Montclair, NJ has
>a large number of CDs of magazines, but I haven't spent enough time there
>to investigate whether they might have old computer magazines. The CDs
>are apparently from that same company. (I live in a different county and
>out-of-town library cards cost dearly around here for some reason).
>--
>Ward Griffiths
>"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
>the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
>
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Received on Tue May 06 1997 - 17:18:17 BST