[Coco] The RAINBOW - all issues easily findable and browsable on the TRS-80 CoCo Wiki

[Steve Stroh]

First, kudos to:
Allen Huffman for starting the TRS-80 CoCo Wiki
(http//www.cocopedia.com). I think the CoCo Wiki is a great resource!
and
Jason Scott and the Internet Archive and textfiles.com
(https://archive.org / http://textfiles.com) for scanning in and
posting a copy (however rough at times) of every issue of The RAINBOW
magazine.

The problem I had with browsing The RAINBOW on the Internet Archive is
that their "interface" wasn't very friendly, and while you could find
any issue they have with a carefully targeted search (such as "the
rainbow magazine january 1992") you couldn't easily browse The RAINBOW
from month to month, to, for example, follow a multi-month project.

Now, you can:
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Rainbow
and scroll down to
Issues of The RAINBOW Magazine available online from Internet Archive.
Under each year's link you'll see a cover shot of each month's issue
that is a link to that issue's page on the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive lets you easily read each issue online without
downloading it. Just click on the cover to "open" that issue to the
table of contents, and keep clicking to read each page in turn.

Or you can download an issue, or every issue, to keep a local copy.

I may do this for the other CoCo magazines, such as Hot CoCo and Color
Computer Magazine.

I'm also thinking of a longer-term project, also to be posted on the
CoCo Wiki, of creating a master table of contents of every issue of
The RAINBOW, unless that's already been done.


Thanks,

Steve Stroh
(soon to be a CoCo 3 user)

-- 
Steve Stroh (personal / general): stevestroh at gmail.com