[HN Gopher] "The Transactor" magazine, Commodore, 1978-1989
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       "The Transactor" magazine, Commodore, 1978-1989
        
       Author : emptybits
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2022-06-18 17:35 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.commodore.ca)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.commodore.ca)
        
       | egypturnash wrote:
       | The best thing, IMHO, about The Transactor as compared to other
       | C64 magazines was that they published actual assembly source code
       | instead of distributing stuff written in assembly as lengthy
       | blocks of numbers with checksums. You could _read_ it and see
       | what was going on.
        
       | gramie wrote:
       | I devoured every issue of The Transactor when it arrived in my
       | (snail) mailbox. It would be 15 years before I made the jump from
       | hobbyist programmer to professional, but I loved learning so much
       | about my computer (back when it was actually possible to know
       | _everything_ about a computer.
       | 
       | People like Jim Butterfield were gods!
        
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       | rexreed wrote:
       | The last issue of Transactor was going to be 1982 Vol #3 / Issue
       | #6, when they were going to shift its readership to the much
       | larger US publication, but they got so many inquiries to keep it
       | going, plus a new sponsor / advertiser that they went to the new
       | Vol #4 and switched to a "professional print publication.". Those
       | two volumes are interesting to read.
       | 
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       | jerryjerryjerry wrote:
       | Wow, didn't realize cool things like this once existed decades
       | ago. So many information have been buried and lost in the
       | history. Probably need a HUGE database to store all these kind of
       | information before they lost...
        
         | noarchy wrote:
         | Thankfully this one has some archives. But indeed, not
         | everything does.
         | 
         | Even with some backup, the Internet has not always proven
         | itself to be a reliable means of archiving things. Companies
         | (and their websites) vanish, and not always with a working
         | archive somewhere. YouTube channels routinely vanish, along
         | with their content, and in many cases it's on you to back
         | something up (using third-party libraries).
        
         | ataylor284_ wrote:
         | A good chunk of Transactor is also available at
         | https://archive.org/details/transactor-magazines, which does
         | happen to be a huge database to store this kind of information.
         | 
         | It's nice to see it available elsewhere too. At first glance,
         | the quality of the files at commodore.ca seems higher than
         | archive.org. And having redundant sources rather than relying
         | on one source for archiving this sort of thing is encouraging.
        
           | rbanffy wrote:
           | We should upload this collection as a second source to
           | archive.org. If nobody else volunteers, I can do it.
        
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