And There I Go
May. 15th, 2015 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerNot that long after I posted about a good deal of Softalk magazine being posted on the Internet Archive, several more issues showed up, making the collection now very close to complete. That the project page there had mentioned there having been forty-eight issues of that magazine in total had left me waiting and hoping, but also wondering if there was something about the last issue not listed that made it hard to get. After all, I was waiting to receive in the mail an issue of Creative Computing that hasn't shown up in the Internet Archive yet.
Towards the end of the week, though, the forty-eighth issue turned up in the list of Softalk, and at the end of the week I picked up the issue of Creative Computing from the local post office, filling in the last gap in a collection formed from scanned copies, reprint volumes of the early years, and a few fill-in issues. There, of course, there's a trace or more of personal boasting, but at least I am facing the perpetual issue of wishing there'd been more of the magazine. If it, or Softalk, had managed to continue into the second half of the 1980s or further it might have had some interesting takes on things. At the same time, of course, if it had continued it might not have been so easy for people to wink about making the old issues available online.
Towards the end of the week, though, the forty-eighth issue turned up in the list of Softalk, and at the end of the week I picked up the issue of Creative Computing from the local post office, filling in the last gap in a collection formed from scanned copies, reprint volumes of the early years, and a few fill-in issues. There, of course, there's a trace or more of personal boasting, but at least I am facing the perpetual issue of wishing there'd been more of the magazine. If it, or Softalk, had managed to continue into the second half of the 1980s or further it might have had some interesting takes on things. At the same time, of course, if it had continued it might not have been so easy for people to wink about making the old issues available online.