Magazine Syntax Z80 - Preservation

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Magazine Syntax Z80 - Preservation

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I was not aware of this magazine, but found a good example on e-bay, by chance.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/302580124010

It seems to be ZX80 related, but seems to be mostly white paper text, instead of the usual glossy paper.
Would this be something of interest for preservation ?

I would say so, but I'm not even aware if there are already digital records/copies of it, somewhere else.
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https://archive.org/search.php?query=Syntax%20ZX80

Not sure if they have all of the issues.
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Ok, Archive.org has only the first 3 volumes. The Ebay listing has a 4th volume. It's like a hybrid trade/usergroup type newsletter. Last year of publication probably would be interesting. But quality wise its a usergroup circular so for the money its a personal decision but I couldn't justify it.

To put this into some perspective, I got a complete run of INPUT for 5 quid...
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Seems to be a fair number of dead links in there.
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ZXDunny wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:11 pm
Seems to be a fair number of dead links in there.
That's because magazines links in ZXDB are just references to Archive.org.

Whenever a magazine collection is incomplete at Archive.org, we get broken links at ZXDB based sites like SC.

I will start a separate thread to talk about magazines in ZXDB, detailing our current work and status about it...
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I just got informed of a more complete collection that will be uploaded to Archive.org.

I'm updating ZXDB accordingly, so most links for this magazine will work after the next update.
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1,2,4,6,7 (vol 3) and a couple of quartelys missing as far as i can work out... And maybe the sampler .... ??

I really should look through what i have at some point.. mostly earlier ones though...
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