"Woody" wrote

Contact your local library. WW certainly - unsure about the other - is
often kept in annual bound volumes.

I doubt that many local libraries keep them for reasons of space. There are
so many magazines and if they kept bound copies of them all going back
decades they'd need a warehouse just for them alone.

If your library does not have them they should be able to request a copy
from the National Library. If you are a member of any electronics
institution or know someone who is their libraries will also likely have
copies.

Indeed.

Where I used to work there was a superb library with copies of most
electronics magazines going back to the first editions in many cases. I
spent many happy hours browsing when I should have been working. Then the
vandals (otherwise known as managers) decided they'd rather have an
"interactive virtual-reality centre" than a library and threw most of the
magazines (and many old technical books) into skips. I managed to save a few
but not as many as I'd have liked. After that if I wanted to read an article
from an old magazine I had to specifically ask for it, and a photocopy would
be sent up from the National Library. But it's not the same as being able to
browse at will. Nowadays, I guess, some of this material is available
on-line.

David.