First post, by douglar
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Out in Ohio, someone decided to sell nearly 200 issues of Computer Shopper for a few thousand bucks.
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Now, I’m not going to have $3,000 to throw around like that. So I put the challenge out there: If people get together and give me $3,000, I’ll buy this lot and scan it it. It hit goal in about 3 hours.
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When 14 large boxes arrived, they included all the issues, put inside large paper envelopes and wrapped in blue plastic that definitely didn’t look like cocaine to the storage unit guys I cruised past.
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Debinding, the taking apart of a bound issue of a magazine to turn it into a stack of papers to scan in, turns out to be a process. A painful, time consuming, involved process. One which I knew would be involved but not as involved as it has definitely turned out to be.
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Through all of this, we’re talking hours of work to do a single issue, and I have to do it a couple hundred times at least. This is going to be quite an epic task… which is, again, why we’re down to me doing it because the combination of cost, time and effort leaves almost nobody else who’d be in a position to be able to do, much less want to.
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Are There Missing Issues? Yes, there are. Here’s the list. If people want to donate or buy good quality copies for me, mail me at jason@textfiles.com. Here’s the missing issues as far as I can tell:
Everything before November 1983
1984: January, October, November
1985: October
1988: June, November
1989: April
1994: April, May, August, November
1995: February, March
1996: April, May, June
1997: July, September
1998: January, May
1999: April, July, August
