From 1981 through to the present, Hardcore Computist (now known simply as
Computist Magazine) provided the means for Apple II users to remove protection
from programs to allow the users to make a legitimate backup copy. The
magazine has enjoyed a good measure of success; however, early issues were
published in small numbers and are hard to find. In 1999, Michael Maginnis
(also known as "Celt") began the painstaking process of digitizing issues
of Computist to save them. The results of his work are below. I have taken
his collection and made it look "prettier" and given it a thumbnail-menu
interface, but the work, the accompanying text, and the enormous amount of
energy given to this project are all Michael's. In 2004, another kind soul
named Jean Pierre offered to digitize from his collection, and issues he
has done are marked as such. Please note that this
collection is not complete and there are missing pages and issues.
Michael Mahon has sent along an index to the first 64 issues of Hardcore
Computist, which provides an alphabetical listing of the softkeys from these
issues. The Shrinkit File Archive of the Original Appleworks Database is
here. Also available is a
Tab-Delimited Textfile (93k) and a
somewhat sketchy HTML Table.
