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  Format mags "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-10-19 08:23 +0100
    Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-19 09:33 +0100
      Re: Format mags "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 09:11 +0100
        Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 11:20 +0100
    Re: Format mags "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2011-10-19 10:44 +0100
      Re: Format mags "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2011-10-19 10:49 +0100
      Re: Format mags Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> - 2011-10-19 11:30 +0100
        Re: Format mags "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 09:15 +0100
      Re: Format mags "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 09:13 +0100
        Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 11:16 +0100
          Re: Format mags deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk.invalid> - 2011-10-20 11:41 +0100
            Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 16:15 +0100
          Re: Format mags "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 18:34 +0100
            Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-14 17:33 +0000
              Re: Format mags Gerard Sweeney <gerardNO.Spamsweeney@ntlworld.com> - 2011-11-16 23:03 +0000
                Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 07:30 +0000
                  Re: Format mags Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> - 2011-11-17 10:44 +0000
                    Re: Format mags nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 13:46 +0000
                      Re: Format mags hp <ferd@farkel.net> - 2011-11-21 14:37 -0500
    Re: Format mags rogerjowett <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 08:29 -0800

#460 — Format mags

I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!

Brian

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#461

On 19/10/11 08:23, Brian Gaff wrote:
> I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these
>
Should have left them buried.

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#471

Ha!

I think you confuse the  publisher with the content. I learned a lot from 
these.

Brian

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 graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
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"nev young" <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:j7m24k$4ji$1@dont-email.me...
> On 19/10/11 08:23, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these
>>
> Should have left them buried.
>
> -- 
> nev
> getting the wrong stick end since 1953 

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#477

On 20/10/11 09:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
>
> I think you confuse the  publisher with the content. I learned a lot from
> these.
>
Not from any of the rubbish I wrote though :-)

You've reminded me I owe him a visit before the end of the year.

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#464

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:23:00 +0100, Brian Gaff <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk>  
wrote:

> I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!

It might be nice for somebody to make scans of the non-electronic fanzines  
(FORMAT, Spectrum UK, Sinclair Classic, ZX Files...) while copies still  
exist. They must be somewhat rarer than the high-street magazines.

Eq.

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#466

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:44:56 +0100, Paul E Collins <equi+web@cl4.invalid>  
wrote:

> Sinclair Classic

I meant Classix, of course. SC wasn't a paper zine!

Eq.

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#467

On 19/10/2011 10:44, Paul E Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:23:00 +0100, Brian Gaff
> <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I seem to have unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!
>
> It might be nice for somebody to make scans of the non-electronic
> fanzines (FORMAT, Spectrum UK, Sinclair Classic, ZX Files...) while
> copies still exist. They must be somewhat rarer than the high-street
> magazines.

WOS has an awful lot of these already, including all of Format and ZX Files:

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/magazines/

I still have a plastic bucket of PD Powers which I ought to scan in at 
some point, but other than that all of the fanzines I picked up in the 
90s pre-interweb era are accounted for there.

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#473

I've probably got Outlet discs, microdrives and stuff somewhere but not 
found them as yet. may have been given to another collector though. its been 
a while.
 Can you believe this I have no Spectrums left here that i can find.
 Brian

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 graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
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"Matthew Westcott" <gasman@raww.org> wrote in message 
news:9g7n6iFqquU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 19/10/2011 10:44, Paul E Collins wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:23:00 +0100, Brian Gaff
>> <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I seem to have unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!
>>
>> It might be nice for somebody to make scans of the non-electronic
>> fanzines (FORMAT, Spectrum UK, Sinclair Classic, ZX Files...) while
>> copies still exist. They must be somewhat rarer than the high-street
>> magazines.
>
> WOS has an awful lot of these already, including all of Format and ZX 
> Files:
>
> ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/
> http://www.worldofspectrum.org/magazines/
>
> I still have a plastic bucket of PD Powers which I ought to scan in at 
> some point, but other than that all of the fanzines I picked up in the 90s 
> pre-interweb era are accounted for there. 

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#472

What you need is someone stranded on an island somewhere with a scanner and 
a computer and an OCR to do them all...
 Brian

-- 
Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
 graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
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"Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> wrote in message 
news:op.v3leo6cydjgvhv@flay.home...
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:23:00 +0100, Brian Gaff <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>
>> I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!
>
> It might be nice for somebody to make scans of the non-electronic fanzines 
> (FORMAT, Spectrum UK, Sinclair Classic, ZX Files...) while copies still 
> exist. They must be somewhat rarer than the high-street magazines.
>
> Eq. 

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#476

On 20/10/11 09:13, Brian Gaff wrote:
> What you need is someone stranded on an island somewhere with a scanner and
> a computer and an OCR to do them all...

I have most of them.
I'm stranded in Narrrrch.
I have a scanner.

No seriously though. If there is *real* interest I'd be willing to scan 
all those I have and host them on my website as jpg images.

I'm _not_ going to OCR them. That would just be masochistic.

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#478

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, nev young wrote:

> On 20/10/11 09:13, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> What you need is someone stranded on an island somewhere with a scanner and
>> a computer and an OCR to do them all...
>
> I have most of them.
> I'm stranded in Narrrrch.
> I have a scanner.

I have none of them.
I am in Narrrrch also.
I have a scanner.

I won't be doing it either.

deKay
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#479

On 20/10/11 11:41, deKay wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, nev young wrote:

>> I'm stranded in Narrrrch.
> I am in Narrrrch also.

Arrrrgh.
I feel the fear!

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#480

Tee he, I doubt if the print quality would allow them to be ocred. I was 
merely thorowing that in for the accessable part of me who can't read 
pictures these days.. evil grin.


Brian

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"nev young" <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:j7osdf$81r$1@dont-email.me...
> On 20/10/11 09:13, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> What you need is someone stranded on an island somewhere with a scanner 
>> and
>> a computer and an OCR to do them all...
>
> I have most of them.
> I'm stranded in Narrrrch.
> I have a scanner.
>
> No seriously though. If there is *real* interest I'd be willing to scan 
> all those I have and host them on my website as jpg images.
>
> I'm _not_ going to OCR them. That would just be masochistic.
>
> -- 
> nev
> getting the wrong stick end since 1953 

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#503

On 20/10/11 18:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Tee he, I doubt if the print quality would allow them to be ocred. I was
> merely thorowing that in for the accessable part of me who can't read
> pictures these days.. evil grin.
>
I was in my loft recently and grabbed a handful of old Formats.
I've scanned them (sorry Brian they're jpegs) and made a temporary web 
page for them at

	nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/format.php

If people here think they are useful I can do some more.

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#507

Doin' the Lambert Waltz on 14/11/2011 17:33, nev young wrote:
>      nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/format.php

Splendid - are these an improvement over the ones on WoS? If so, would 
you consider uploading them?

Toodle-pip!
Gerard


-- 
Gerard Sweeney
Hackers Anonymous/Team Amiga
http://fly.to/ha3 and http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk

I'll add that to my list of marginally useful
things other people have suggested I do.
(Dilbert, dilbert.com, 06 Nov 07)

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#509

On 16/11/11 23:03, Gerard Sweeney wrote:
> Doin' the Lambert Waltz on 14/11/2011 17:33, nev young wrote:
>> nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/format.php
>
> Splendid - are these an improvement over the ones on WoS? If so, would

I haven't seen the WoS ones. Do you have a url?

> you consider uploading them?
>
I've kind of decided to put all my old mags and stuff on the PC for my 
own use. Making them public shouldn't be too difficult. Well not as 
difficult as getting round any copyright issues!

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#510

On 17/11/2011 07:30, nev young wrote:
> On 16/11/11 23:03, Gerard Sweeney wrote:
>> Doin' the Lambert Waltz on 14/11/2011 17:33, nev young wrote:
>>> nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/format.php
>>
>> Splendid - are these an improvement over the ones on WoS? If so, would
>
> I haven't seen the WoS ones. Do you have a url?

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/Format/

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#511

On 17/11/11 10:44, Matthew Westcott wrote:
> On 17/11/2011 07:30, nev young wrote:
>> On 16/11/11 23:03, Gerard Sweeney wrote:
>>> Doin' the Lambert Waltz on 14/11/2011 17:33, nev young wrote:
>>>> nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/format.php
>>>
>>> Splendid - are these an improvement over the ones on WoS? If so, would
>> I haven't seen the WoS ones. Do you have a url?
> ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/Format/
>
Thanks Matthew. I never knew they existed. I'm guessing that there is no 
copyright problems then if they're already on-line (I'll ask B*b when I 
see him next week). Although I'm not above nicking a couple from WoS to 
fill omissions from my own collection :-)

I'll still do my own (as then I can get to them off-line).
My "other stuff" may also be of interest to the world at large but it 
could be a few weeks before I'm done.

-- 
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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#516

Whilst rooting around the hoard of Timex/Sinclair stuff I have piled 
away I ran across a box with mixed newsletters in it.  I do remember a 
long sorting session dividing the many piles of lots of different 
newsletters and user group publications into organized, and sorted 
stacks of newsletters. One of which got stuffed into my QL sets because 
they shared the same basic size.

I have available for basically the shipping cost:

FORMAT -- For the Spectrum and SAM

Vol 3   #5 --> #12    1990
Vol 4   #1 --> #12    1991
Vol 5   #1 --> #12    1992
Vol 6   #1 --> #4     1992
Almost Exactly 36 paper issues of news, articles and other stuff they 
carried in this publication for the Spectrum and SAM computers.

IF interested I am in the USA and was a known person in the Sinclair 
community here.

Eventually I will be getting more stuff out and seeing if it is still 
wanted by someone.
(there are several stacks of neatly put away boxez stuffed with goodies 
that haven't been disturbed in over 10 years)

(Psst,  also located my 'need to work on someone's computer' parts box,
I have EPROMs that are coded with various ROM codes for the Timex and 
for related hardware that was sold during that time, as well as other 
bits and pieces we serviced here back then.)  Where can I possibly see 
if the code is already available or not?

Guess I should try and locate my old EPROM programmer so I can lift code 
if needed.

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#526

On Oct 19, 7:23 am, "Brian Gaff" <Bria...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I seem to have  unearthed a lot of these, but they are bloody heavy!
>
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian Gaff - bria...@blueyonder.co.uk
> Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff'
> in the display name may be lost.
> Blind user, so no pictures please!

you dont have the one with the article on converting the parallel to a
serial port please? was it very complex or pretty straight forward
conversion you dont know what baud rates are supported please?

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