[Coco] 68 Micro Journal

[Luis Fernández]

Hello aaron
I think in the torrent missing
V01N05jul1979.pdt

and

V05N05May1983.pdf

in cococoding, if they are

> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 04:30:18 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 68 Micro Journal
> 
> If you (or anyone else) have copies of 68 MJ, maybe we can get them
> scanned in at a higher resolution.  The scans in the torrent aren't
> too bad, but where they used the very small font it is sometimes
> unreadable.   It would be great to preserve 100% of the content.
> 
> This is my favorite 6809 magazine besides the Rainbow, tons of great
> OS9 info in there, and very interesting to see the 68xx world from a
> non CoCo-centric perspective. In case anyone isn't familiar with this
> magazine, it covers 11 years and starts just prior to the CoCo coming
> out, with coverage split between the 6800 and the new 6809.  It
> contains early rumors and news of the entrance of the CoCo to the 6809
> world,  the pre-release announcements and ads for OS9, a letter from
> Ken Kaplan talking about OS9 and BASIC09 before they are available for
> sale.. all kinds of history there.  Then there are several years of
> great articles about Flex, OS9, C, Forth, asm, and some CoCo specific
> stuff too.  Peter Dibble's OS9 series is excellent.  You can watch
> OS9's life cycle as it comes out, improves with level 2, becomes
> dominate as Flex declines, and in the last few years you see the
> transition to 68000 systems.
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Stephen H. Fischer
> <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My set is probable incomplete but I will check to see if that issue is in my
> > set which will go into the recycling bin soon after the DVD is burned.
> > Thanks for the Rainbows also.
> >
> > Aaron, if you think that scan is bad, the A5 HAM CoCo book which will be
> > coming your way soon has parts that are not readable at all and would be a
> > waste of time trying to scan.
> >
> > 68 MJ did try to get too much into the magazine at times.
> >
> > SHF
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] 68 Micro Journal
> >
> >
> > unfortunately the scans are not high dpi and some of the code,
> > especially asm code, used very small fonts.  A vast majority of the
> > articles and most of the code is quite readable, but that example is
> > really not.  I checked the pre-ocr original and its not any better.
> >
> > Like the rainbows, there may exist somewhere higher dpi scans.  I
> > haven't found them yet, so this is the best I know of for now.
> >
> > 2011/5/11 Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Hi aaron
> >> In magazine Vol02N06 pag 19 for example
> >>
> >> can not read anything
> >>
> >> You can improve this?
> >>
> >>> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:51:52 -0400
> >>> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> >>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> >>> Subject: [Coco] 68 Micro Journal
> >>>
> >>> I finished OCRing/shrinking the 68 Micro Journals. There is a ton of
> >>> OS9 and 6809 info in these, some C and other programming articles too.
> >>>
> >>> http://aaronwolfe.com/68micro.torrent
> >>>
> >>> -Aaron
> >
> >
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