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Back when I actually worked for EDN in Boston, we had bound copies of back issues all the way back to 1956. Unfortunately, I think those may have been since discarded. The Martin Luther King Library archive room in downtown San Jose has back issues to 1974, which includes early microprocessor coverage. The archives also include Electronics Magazine going way, way back to the 1930s. Many other big town public libraries will also have bound archived volumes of EDN as will big university libraries. At one point, when I was editor in chief, I shot 35mm slides of all EDN magazine covers from 1956 to 1996, but I've never digitized them. I got EDN back issues onto the Web in 1995 as a skunkworks project (and caught hell from upper management at the time) but we only went back to 1989 in that project because there wasn't any real funding. I don't think they've gone back further in time since then and I don't expect they will. EDN did a 50th annoversary issue a couple of years ago in September. You might enjoy that.