Welcome to the Amateur Computerist's Web Corner
The Amateur Computerist grew out of a battle against the
cancellation of computer programming classes for hourly workers at
the Ford Rouge Factory. The newsletter deals with computer issues
and labor issues. The Amateur Computerist is dedicated to support
for grassroots efforts and movements like the "computers for the
people movement" that gave birth to the personal computer in the
1970s and 1980s and articles about these developments have appeared
in past issues of the newsletter. Most recently the newsletter is
documenting the history of the development of the Global Computer
Communications Network, of Usenet, and of Unix and the progressive
impact of these important breakthroughs.
Ways to access the Amateur Computerist Newsletter:
- HTTP
- All ssues 1-1 to most recent issue.
- WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU (sadly no longer online)
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/ HTTP and
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn FTP.
- Contained archives of the newsletters in ascii text
- and wordperfect 5.1 formats, the newsgroup and the net-book.
- ETEXT.ORG (sadly no longer online)
- http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/AmateurComputeristNews/
and
- ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Politics/Amateur.Computerist/
FTP
- HTTP site has issues 1-1, 4-2, 4-4, 4-5, 5-1
- FTP site has issues 4-2, 4-4, 4-5 and misc. Flint related articles.
- Tulane University (sadly no longer online)
- http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~rwoods/internet/amcomp61.html
- Vol. 6 No. 1, and
- http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~rwoods/internet/amcomp62.html
- Vol. 6 No. 2
- 6-1 is the Unix issue and 6-2 is the Netizens and Internet issue.
- The Wonderful World of Usenet News was at a Gopher site:
- gopher://gopher.uchicago.edu/11/nonuoc/newsgr/wonderful-world
- Many issues were at another Gopher site and an FTP site, CIC.NET:
- gopher://gopher.cic.net:2000/11/e-serials/archive/alphabetic/a/amateur-computerist
- ftp://ftp.cic.net/pub/e-serials/archive/alphabetic/a/amateur-computerist
- Contained archives of the newsletters (in ascii text and>WP 5.1), and net-book only. [Note: The
CIC.NET URLs have changed or disappeared.]
Also Available
Links to The NetBook,
"The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net: An Anthology" - A
net-book about the history of the net, and some cultural context.
To see all issues click here:All issues 1988 to the
Present
Some issues can be seen here:
Vol 13 No
2
Vol 14 No
1
Vol 14 No
2
Vol 15 No
1
Vol 15 No
2
Vol 16 No
1
Vol 16 No
2
Vol 17 No
1
You can reach Jay Hauben at <hauben@columbia.edu>
Also see Michael Hauben's
Original
webpage /