OSI-tems Vol III
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:54 pm
Here are the first three issues of Volume III (although #1 is apparently missing one or more pages), all scanned using "Autodetect Color Mode".
Issue #1 (of this volume) contains an index of all previous issues of OSI-tems. Based on the information there, I have concluded that the "missing" pages from Vol II, #8 were not actually missing from just my copy, but were never actually printed. In all likelihood, the "OS-65D Corner" article from Vol II, #10 is the same one that was supposed to be in issue #8. But this issue #1, the same one that contains the index, really does seem to be missing pages from my copy, or at least one page, explaining the screenclear routine at the bottom of page 19. The staples were loose on my copy, so I do think one or more pages got separated. I tried to find them, but could not.
Issue #2 was printed very poorly, with parts of some pages faded out so much that they are completely illegible. This seems to have been a printing error common to all copies, as several articles that were (attempted to be) printed in issue #2 were reprinted in issue #3.
Issue #3 is notable for containing the first use (in one of the boxes on the cover) of the acronym OSUNY to designate our group. Starting with issue #4, that name will be used more prominently. A few years later, it will become nationally, and internationally, famous (or infamous).
Issue #1 (of this volume) contains an index of all previous issues of OSI-tems. Based on the information there, I have concluded that the "missing" pages from Vol II, #8 were not actually missing from just my copy, but were never actually printed. In all likelihood, the "OS-65D Corner" article from Vol II, #10 is the same one that was supposed to be in issue #8. But this issue #1, the same one that contains the index, really does seem to be missing pages from my copy, or at least one page, explaining the screenclear routine at the bottom of page 19. The staples were loose on my copy, so I do think one or more pages got separated. I tried to find them, but could not.
Issue #2 was printed very poorly, with parts of some pages faded out so much that they are completely illegible. This seems to have been a printing error common to all copies, as several articles that were (attempted to be) printed in issue #2 were reprinted in issue #3.
Issue #3 is notable for containing the first use (in one of the boxes on the cover) of the acronym OSUNY to designate our group. Starting with issue #4, that name will be used more prominently. A few years later, it will become nationally, and internationally, famous (or infamous).