Other Sites Doing Similar Things |
It stands to reason that there'd be others with their own collections of computer literature they'd want to scan in to share with others and save for posterity. I've done some looking around and found a few examples, to show how others want to approach this goal. |
S. BROWNING' VINTAGE COMPUTER ADS
| Mr. Browning has collected eighteen computer ads and put them up for enjoyment. He may have had others, but he's experienced bandwidth problems and has only what he considers the top examples up.
VINTAGECOMPUTERADS.COM
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| Over 350 computer advertisements, with a focus on computer systems and games from the 1980's and 1990's. In some ways, this site is very impressive, with the ability to cross-reference by year and type of machine, but a few other choices bother me very much. Specifically, they insist on "branding" their digitized images. The technique of branding is used for specific reasons; for example, a magazine that puts up images they wish to recieve credit for or a company that sells images who want to make sure their work isn't stolen and not paid for. But this is supposed to be a historical archive of images and the images are all smeared with the vintagecomputerads.com logo, which will only last as long as the site. This is extremely short-sighted.
THE LEGACY: A NOSTALGIC GAME MUSEUM
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| A very-well done site with hundreds of covers and information about all manner of computer games going back a very long time. Full of information, graphics and solid historical interest. Again, they brand everything, which is a real shame, but there's so much work put into the project that it's hard to have a huge problem with them. A real joy to browse through. |
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