Sometimes, if you wait long enough...

For a while now, I've been turning up scanned copies of decades-old computer magazine in obscure corners online. Hopefully old enough (and devoted to long-discontinued systems) that this doesn't bother too many people, a good number of these magazines do interest me and brush up my awareness of the heroic age of microcomputing. Every time I found another source of magazines, though, I would think back to one I first learned about years before, when its last year in print turned up in the basement after my family moved and a computing class early in high school had us look at a bunch of even then old magazines on a shelf just to find the computer-related cartoons in them. It had caught my interest in a particular way, and the text-only transcriptions of its final years I turned up quite a while ago might have only piqued my attention further. As kept I wondering if anyone else would get around to scanning them, though, I began thinking of the handful of issues of it I'd managed to get through online auctions. If someone had to take the first step of cutting their magazines up to scan them on, that someone might even be inexperienced me... and then, driven by some obscure feeling that had me checking the "computer magazines" section of the Internet Archive on a thoroughly regular basis, I saw a new entry there.
( The creative development... )