[Coco] 68 Micro Journal

[Aaron Wolfe]

both of these files are in the torrent here.  maybe someone else who
downloaded it can confirm that they have these files?


2011/5/11 Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>:
>
> 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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