(Start of list) ===================== "Ahoy!" magazine ===================== 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? ========== Run ========== 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. =============== Transactor =============== 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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