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By BYTE.com Readers
August 4, 2003
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A BYTE of History
Dear BYTE.com,
I'm an antique microcomputer computer collector. As part of this hobby of
mine, I am—beside computers—collecting and preserving old magazines.
Due the difficulties of finding anything anymore, I have started a small project
to catalogue and index all oldish computer related magazines I have. This
includes an almost complete collection of BYTE magazines from issue 11/1976
upto somewhere in 1989. The beginning of the BYTE magazine index is already
available on the Web at http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/publication/10.en.html.
However, when adding the BYTE magazine from October 1977 (Volume 2, issue 10), I came
across two articles about the introduction of Commodore's Pet microcomputer
at the National Computer Conference as well as about NCC in general.
I hereby ask a permission to scan, OCR and publish these two articles at my
Web site. I think that both articles have some historical value, at least
for hobbyists like me. I will not use these for anything commercial—they
will be available for free, only for personal use.
I would also be delighed to hear any comments that you have about the
indexing project, either BYTE or the "library" site in general.
The site is available at http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/.
Sami Rautiainen
rtiainen@suespammers.org
We think Sami's project sounds like a great resource, and we're happy to support it. –Ed.
Squatting on SCO
I'm sure if the whole "SCO owns Linux" thing ever goes to court [see "SCO Owns Your Computer" by Trevor Marshall, BYTE.com, 6/16/2003] that it will be found that the world has some type of "squaters rights" regarding whatever rights SCO might have owned, had it defended the "proprietary code," if any even exists.
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