Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
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The link is in reference to "I found scans of his section on archive.org, including the issue where he announces the contest, but I couldn't find my particular contribution".
Perhaps they don't want to mark out the OP as "special" to the resulting conversation, but it would help make the situation here clearer.
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})();I'm sending this thread to the admins as a feature request.
Unfortunately, their catalog does not list this particular magazine as far as I can tell.
Is it still going or did it piss off the wrong person in America?
This is just tcp to 207.241.224.2 port 80 (delivered via curl) or from a router.
SYN goes out, nothing comes back.
I can't reach it from AS16509 (AWS eu-west-2), AS17547 (MOne in Singapore), AS18106 (Viewquest Singapore), AS20712 (UK), or AS4755 (Tata in India)
I can reach it from AS23674 (Nayatel Pakistan), AS174 (Cogent in US), AS3356 (Level3 in US), AS46887 (Crown Castle in US) and AS7545 (TPG Sydney)
I can also reach it via mozillavpn on AS39351 (London) and presumably other sites
Multiple machines, multiple ISPs, multiple ways to the internet. Very odd.
Thanks for confirming it's not fully broken though
Do you know if there are any hoops to jump through these days? My understanding was that a reader card used to require an academic referral or at least a write-up of the research you planned to conduct.
FWIW I was only ever there for the café or the bookshop though, neither of which required a card :D
(You might meet PaulRobinson while you're there, looking for the same issues!)
Thanks again for even considering it. Much appreciated! My email address is my HN username at gmail.
That said, I'm happy to go and try and pull those copies (it's sometimes hard to get physical copies), and send the OP scans of his contributions (if they're in there!), when I go in mid-late November.
OP - if this is a useful help to you, let me know and we'll find a way to connect!
I have since contacted the British Library and they have the eight issues I was looking for, but I live way up north and it would take a little planning and spending whole day to get there, but if you'd be willing to do that, yes please. I've narrowed it down to these eight which are in the right timeframe and are missing from the archive.org collection. I do remember my mention was right at the end of that month's column, right before the usual sign-off and the address in Bath to send in contributions.
My email address is my HN username at gmail.
(Short version of email: Yes please!)
I still remember following Huw Collingbourne’s Delphi and C++ Builder tutorials too. I actually learned to write a word processor in C++ from those.
PC Plus was such a good magazine. I bought it religiously from around 1996-2002. Miss those days.
Sadly paulspages.co.uk appears to be down. It would be great to recover the screen cam videos for YouTube though!
I did see a memorial recently [1] - turned out he lived up the street from me for many years.
Sadly most of the cover-disk images kicking around at archive.org are from the later 3½" cover disk era, by which time I was at college and more focused on Linux, SLS/Slackware, and so forth.
I could be wrong but man I want to find that magazine now.
This ticks several boxes - the desire to archive technical literature, sympathy for an achieveable goal, and nostalgia for the magazines of yesteryear.
The element of serendipity is part of the appeal for me; for example if OP had posted at a different hour, it might have sunk without trace.
Why? Had the other entries written GCC/LD themselves?
I'd love to see that.