[Coco] 68 Micro Journal

[Aaron Wolfe]

If you (or anyone else) have copies of 68 MJ, maybe we can get them
scanned in at a higher resolution.  The scans in the torrent aren't
too bad, but where they used the very small font it is sometimes
unreadable.   It would be great to preserve 100% of the content.

This is my favorite 6809 magazine besides the Rainbow, tons of great
OS9 info in there, and very interesting to see the 68xx world from a
non CoCo-centric perspective. In case anyone isn't familiar with this
magazine, it covers 11 years and starts just prior to the CoCo coming
out, with coverage split between the 6800 and the new 6809.  It
contains early rumors and news of the entrance of the CoCo to the 6809
world,  the pre-release announcements and ads for OS9, a letter from
Ken Kaplan talking about OS9 and BASIC09 before they are available for
sale.. all kinds of history there.  Then there are several years of
great articles about Flex, OS9, C, Forth, asm, and some CoCo specific
stuff too.  Peter Dibble's OS9 series is excellent.  You can watch
OS9's life cycle as it comes out, improves with level 2, becomes
dominate as Flex declines, and in the last few years you see the
transition to 68000 systems.


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My set is probable incomplete but I will check to see if that issue is in my
> set which will go into the recycling bin soon after the DVD is burned.
> Thanks for the Rainbows also.
>
> Aaron, if you think that scan is bad, the A5 HAM CoCo book which will be
> coming your way soon has parts that are not readable at all and would be a
> waste of time trying to scan.
>
> 68 MJ did try to get too much into the magazine at times.
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 68 Micro Journal
>
>
> unfortunately the scans are not high dpi and some of the code,
> especially asm code, used very small fonts.  A vast majority of the
> articles and most of the code is quite readable, but that example is
> really not.  I checked the pre-ocr original and its not any better.
>
> Like the rainbows, there may exist somewhere higher dpi scans.  I
> haven't found them yet, so this is the best I know of for now.
>
> 2011/5/11 Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi aaron
>> In magazine Vol02N06 pag 19 for example
>>
>> can not read anything
>>
>> You can improve this?
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:51:52 -0400
>>> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
>>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>> Subject: [Coco] 68 Micro Journal
>>>
>>> I finished OCRing/shrinking the 68 Micro Journals. There is a ton of
>>> OS9 and 6809 info in these, some C and other programming articles too.
>>>
>>> http://aaronwolfe.com/68micro.torrent
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>
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