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"Ahoy!" magazine
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1984: I have 10 issues, need 2 more.
I have jan84 (#1), apr84 (#4), may84 (#5),
jun84 (#6), jul84 (#7), aug84 (#8), sep84 (#9),
oct84 (#10), nov84 (#11), dec84 (#12).
I want: feb84 (#2), mar84 (#3).
1985: I have all issues from 1985. (#13 to #24.)
1986: I have all issues from 1986. (#25 to #36.)
1987: I have all issues from 1987. (#37 to #48.)
1988: I have 10 issues, need 2 more.
I already have: jan(#49), feb(#50), mar(#51), apr(#52),
jun(#54), jul(#55), sep(#57), oct(#58), nov(#59), dec(#60).
I want: may(#53), aug(#56).
1989: I only have jan89 (#61).
Notes: The magazine itself says their first issue
was January of 1984. They were always monthly.
Jan89 seems to be their last issue ever?
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Run
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I have every issue they ever put out. Don't need any more
of the actual magazines. (Run put out a seperate disk you
could buy, with all the issues contents on it. I have next
to none of those, and might be interested in buying some?)
Notes: Their first issue came out in January of 1984.
Their last issue came out in Nov/Dec 1992. After
that, they filled subscriptions with another title
(unrelated) put out by the new publisher.
CMD bought up the rights to all the RUN magazines
and disks. They still sell RUN disks to this day.
(Ward's web page lists them in the links section.)
I had a number of things printed in this magazine,
for what that's worth. These issues were the ones:
October 1990 = A "magic trick" published.
May / Jun 1991 = A cover article published.
It was a profiler, used to
speed up C64 BASIC programs.
Sep / Oct 1991 = A "magic trick" published.
Nov / Dec 1991 = Three programs published
on the ReRun disk, as they
were far too big to type.
All unique disk utilities
I wrote some years before.
Jul / Aug 1992 = A "magic trick" published.
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Transactor
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Volumes 1, 2, 3:
I need all 30 of them, to have a 100% "complete" set.
But if I don't get these it won't kill me: see notes.
Volume 4:
I have issues #1 and #3 on paper, and #2 on microfiche.
I want paper originals of every issue in this volume.
Volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9:
I have a complete set of all these issues. (Issue 9-2
is only a good photocopy; I would not mind being able
to get a paper original of it. However, all others are
original paper magazines, in good or better shape.)
Notes: The Transactor was originally put out by Commodore
Canada. It later became an independent publication.
Among those who know and respect Commodore computers,
this magazine is still very much revered. It was the
magazine of choice for hardcore technical people.
The Transactor started out in 1978 as a two-page news
letter, stapled in the top left corner, according to an
editorial printed in The Transactor, Volume 5 Issue 1.
Quoting Jim Butterfield in TPUG news Volume 1 Number 1
(an insert to Transactor Volume 7 Issue 4, by the way):
"It was a few mimeographed sheets... sometimes with a
technical bulletin attached. When Karl Hildon joined
Commodore Canada, there was a marked change in The
Transactor. There was more material, more carefully
edited. Karl was aware that The Transactor, as a
Commodore publication, had the 'stamp of authority'.
If the magazine said it was OK to make a modification
to your computer, Commodore would have to stand by it."
Volume 4 marked the point where The Transactor became
independent of Commodore. It was still led by the same
editor, Karl J. Hildon. It was still published from
within Canada. Volume 4 Issue 1 talks about the new
publishing venture the magazine was then embarking on.
The magazine was bi-monthly from this point forward.
(Simple math would lead one to believe that 30 issues
were published prior to Volume 4's arrival, and this is
confirmed by Volume 4 Issue 1's editorial page. But was
it six issues the first year, then twelve issues for
both volumes 2 and 3? Or was it ten issues, spread out
evenly? I don't know for sure at this point. Anyone?)
For whatever reason, it is easier to find Volumes 5 and
up a lot easier than it is to find copies of the early
ones. Perhaps that is when they were sold in the States?
I do recall every good computer shop carrying them, at
around the beginning of Volume 5. (Can anyone confirm?)
Some issues of the magazine had special inserts. If you
were a member of the "Toronto PET Users Group" when the
Transactor put out Volume 7 Issue 4, you would have found
a copy of "TPUG News" Volume 1 Number 1 in your magazine.
(I wasn't, but while filling out my collection, was lucky
enough to have found some of these "special" magazines.)
TPUG still exists. You can find out more about what they
published next at: http://www.icomm.ca/tpug/nl.htm
As of Volume 8 number 2, many changes were made. (Last
part of 1987.) This was because the editor and staff had
bought the magazine from its parent company. At this
point, the magazine had become "subscription only"; no
more newsstand sales were made, although some computer
stores carried the title later, as I recall and the
editorial for 8-2 mentioned. Paid circulation at this
point was quoted as being 15,000 customers.
Up until this issue, the cover artist had been John
Mostacci. His last cover was Volume 8 issue 1. His art
work was great; I (and others) were sad that no more
of his covers were made at this point. There was one
interim cover by another artist, then really boring
and plain covers from then on. (Mostacci's covers had
been adorning the magazine from at least volume five.)
The magazine ".info" says in its jan/feb 1989 issue
that "the Transactor is back! The transactor has had
some financial difficulties that have kept them from
publishing for several months. Those hard times are
apparently now over -- the Transactor has been sold
to Commodore Computing International, a British
magazine publisher. Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan
will still be the editors, and you should see new
issues of both the 8-bit and Amiga versions by the
time you read this." (Note that last; a reference
to two different versions. I concentrate on 8-bits
myself, and own no Amiga Transactors at all.)
When did the Transactor stop publishing? I don't know.
Was Volume 9 the last one? (The last copy I have,
called Volume 9 issue 6, is dated as August 1989.)
One also has to factor into all this, the idea that
the Commodore 8-bit line was being replaced by the
Amiga line of home computers. That influenced things.
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