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Re: Rainbow magazine

#349
From: R Perea
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:14
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"*ProteanThread*" wrote:

> "Neil Morrison" wrote:
>
>> "R Perea" wrote:
>>> Ira (of www.trs-80.com) fame has been scanning a good share of magazines
>> and books. There is some talk about doing The Rainbow, but the discussion
is
>>> how to go about it because one of the options is to rip apart each
magazine
>>> and ...
>>>
>>> We will have The Rainbow in electronic form soon... fingers are crossed!
>>
>> I would do Hot Coco and a couple of others before I considered Rainbow.
>> Much of those wasn't worth archiving when you really look at them
nowadays.
>>
>> NM
>
> I would dis-agree because anything retro now is worth archiving.

Aye... back in the high sales days of the CoCo we had som much readily
available that it was easy to throw out stuff we may have felt not needed,
but as the years go by, even some of the dud programs that went to fill up
page after page in some of The Rainbow magazine can now be considered
gems... not too shiny and dazzling as others but still gems ;-)


-=[ Rogelio ]=-
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