One of my hobbies is scanning old magazines and books for the Internet Archive. I'm currently at close to 3,500 items - you can view what I've scanned here and here. I have been prolific in uploading Australian Personal Computer (aka APC, apcmag), but there's still plenty of gaps in the Internet Archive's collection of what I would consider the "magazine of record" for the Australian consumer/small business computer scene.
Here's what the Internet Archive is missing:
I currently have almost every issue of APC from 2015 to early 2024 sitting on my kitchen table ready for the guillotine once I get the blades sharpened, but I am keen to get the missing issues I've listed above.
If you have any, or know someone that has any of the missing issues of Australia Personal Computer, please get in touch with me. If you're in Melbourne/VIC, I'll pick em up from you. If you're outside the great state of Victoria, I'll pay for postage. If you don't know anyone, share the link to this blog post and maybe we will find these missing issues and we can add them to the Internet Archive! It's a great way to preserve a part of Australia's computing history.
Please note, I am a destructive scanner. I cut the spines off and put them into a sheet fed scanner. I currently don't have the ability (or patience) to do non-destructive scanning. I can return the unbound pages to you, but most of the time I just recycle em. My theory is that this stuff was going in the bin anyways, it may as well be scanned first before it gets pulped and turned into toilet paper.
