But they don't scan everything or even ILL everything, so it's pretty lost by contemporary standards.

It'll get there. We have a gap now, but many national libraries and other large collections do understand the value of scanning and making available. Part of the challenge is that they then to will prioritise old and rare publications to things like these magazines, especially when copyright limitations makes it challenging to publish the newer material.

There are many quite decent publicly accessible collections of computer magazines, though, because of the audience - other types of magazines are in a worse position.

I can say I've looked for Creative Computing in some of the largest and most prestigious libraries on the east coast of the U.S. and the haven't had it. It wasn't just the public libraries that thought it was obsolete, it was the big academic libraries too.