Why are you smiling? You should've donated them!

Magazines like Byte and Creative Computing were perceived as ephemeral by libraries, particularly academic libraries, and were discarded quickly. My mom threw most of mine out when I went to college.

In the mid 1990s I tried to get 1979 issues of Creative Computing and couldn't find any academic libraries that could offer them for interlibrary loan.

To whom? Internet Archive would be the obvious recipient, and they've clearly already digitized it.

I'd take 'em.

i wonder whats stopping anyone from doing a re-print of these magazines... not enough demand?

Still under copyright.

i see... i wonder who holds it still, it would be nice if they offered re-prints