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Recently I have been looking for a specific issue of an old 1985 Japanese PC magazine, but there are non currently for sale, nor have there been any sold for so
by msephton 3y ago
Recently I have been looking for a specific issue of an old 1985 Japanese PC magazine, but there are non currently for sale, nor have there been any sold for some time judging by sold listings. Over the past several years what I would normally do in this scenario is play the waiting game and hope one pops up for sale and that I can win it. But this time I decided to play things a little different, after finding a detailed table of contents for the magazine at Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL) and seeing that they offered a remote duplication service.
I thought I’d document this very useful, somewhat archaic, but thoroughly charming process.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoThanks. This was very informative. Would you mind telling us the magazine title? I'm just curious.
- msephton 3y agoSure! It was Monthly ASCII, 1985-11, No.101 https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/3250694/1/1 https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/3250694/1/1
- boomboomsubban 3y agoIf you want to help others in your exact situation, scan the scans and put them on the internet archive.
- toyg 3y agoWouldn't that qualify as copyright infringement...?
- boomboomsubban 3y agoYes, like much of IA's content it is. If the copyright holders object they can DMCA claim it.
- msephton 3y agoI will do something alone those lines, and more, at some point in the future if/when I secure my own copy of the magazine.
- nevermindiguess 3y agoYou criminal. You knowingly support copyright infringement. You represent what is wrong with the world. I hope they put your dumb face on toilet paper in China and force you to go around file DMCA claims to take it down.
- dang 3y agoPosting like this will get you banned on HN, as it's completely against the rules. You've unfortunately been breaking them in other comments too. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on? That means (among other things) no personal attacks, no name-calling, no flamewar, and so on. We want respectful, thoughtful, and above all curious conversation.
- msephton 3y agoYou have no idea what you're talking about. You also have no idea how to reply to the correct comment on this website.
- plagiarist 3y agoInteresting! I was really hoping to see the copies at the end, but realized you'd be violating the very copyright policy you had to obey to get them.
- Bedon292 3y agoVery interesting, but you left me wanting more information. What was so special about this magazine? And I assume one particular article, since you only needed 3 pages.
- msephton 3y agoIt was a feature describing a computer game written by a reader of the magazine. That makes it pretty much as old as Tetris. The source code listing was elsewhere in the magazine, so involved a separate request. I'm sure I'll blog about the specifics in future as that is a really interesting story in and of itself.