Archiving

I picked up several old football programs (for £4) at a recent Car Boot sale in Trumpington. I'm not quite sure why - it's not like I don't have enough to scan! - but these stood out as oddities on the stall, and I tend to worry that the place for unsold oddities, at the end of the car boot, would be the bin. The Blue bin. I mean, let's recycle. But still a bin. Here are the scanned images;             The link to these on the Internet Archive is here .

I have amassed an extensive collection of old Acorn Computer magazines. Some are duplicates, and a quick search online will find a good scan of them - sometimes, people offer e-Bay CDs with many scans on them. This issue, from May 1989, seems to be missing from the other collections out there; This is a key part of my archiving project . My focus when putting together the project was to archive and produce a definitive list of every piece of software and hardware announced or released for the Acorn series of computers (BBC, Electron, Archimedes, etc.). Getting a good scan of each magazine is a good place to start. The link to this new scan on the Internet Archive is  here .

This is a poor-quality Fall 1988/ Winter 1989 product catalogue scan. Really poor. Sorry about that! This is available here (Internet Archive).

This is an old scan of the Demon Telegram - a magician's magazine from 1946. I like the tagline; "IF IT'S GOOD-WE HAVE IT"! This is available via the Internet Archive here .

This was the first ever convention I attended, and it was fantastic. I scanned this many years ago, and it has been sitting in my collection, waiting for me to do something with it.  It is available here (via the Internet Archive).

 An interesting little one - it's basically a leaflet included in Fox TV DVDs released in 2008.         It's available on the Internet Archive here . If I'm being honest, this has sat around on my PC for quite a while, and I'm not sure what happened to the quality of this one!

 A slight deviation from my 8-bit scanning with a 16-bit reference document from Atari.   I have a small pet hate for "shiny" page covers—they make scanning hard. You can see the issues resulting from them, such as blurring some words on some pages.  The scanned book (34 pages) is available here .