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

[Stephen Fischer]

Have you seen the "Text Searchable Index for Rainbow"?

https://archive.org/details/RainbowMagazineTextSearchableIndex

Rainbow's annual index had multiple categories making the chance of 
finding references even though the OCR was not perfect.

Also the Scans of Rainbow in the

TRS-80 Color Computer Software Repository - 
-coco-Documents-Magazines-Rainbow%20on%20Disk-

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/

Are very much better!

The archive.org collection of Rainbow was done by one person who did a 
dump and run operation and I found out that the very poor scans could 
not be replaced. That entire collection needs to be down played and 
actually removed due to much better collections. I uploaded two issues 
that were horribly done with low resolution.

I have all the issues of Rainbow on my N.A.S. from a bit torrent (sp) of 
the issues on

https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/magazines/rainbow

Perhaps a new torrent of the better issues on

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/

could be done.

Also there is the

Rainbow On Tape Disk Project
https://archive.org/details/RainbowOnTapeDiskProject

Which eliminates the need to type in programs in many most cases.

The www.colorcomputerarchive.com may now have more Rainbow on Tape / 
Disk and we are always looking for missing ROT / ROD.

SHF

On 3/6/2018 5:18 PM, Steve Stroh wrote:
> 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)
>