>Too bad the old service is not still up it had all the old ones on it.
If you mean MagWeb, alas, we did not have #33 up. We had from 65 through the last issue 133, but only 16 of the issues between 1 and 63.
Those early issues (as were many other magazines from early days) were diabolically difficult to scan and perform OCR on to come up with clean text (oh the typos that slipped through!).
If you scanned a page as an image, it took up a considerable amount of space -- slow downloads in an era of 28.8 and 14.4 modems. If I recall (dangerous), a 14.4 modem downloaded files at 1K per second (?). When we scanned in jumbo-sized maps of a few hundred K, we warned folks ahead of time and also made smaller versions.
Anyway, much different now with broadband speeds and plentiful storage space, but then again, it's been 28 years from MagWeb's start in 1996 and 10 since its closing in 2009.
