Playboy magazine archives released on hard drive

Nov. 30, 2010 11:47 AM PT

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The entire archives of Playboy magazine, from 1953 to 2010, are now available on single pocket-sized hard drive. Our tech blog reports:

The USB hard drive sells for about $300 and has more than 650 issues loaded on the device. The hard drive also has 200 GB worth of free space for those looking to save other files alongside the digital archive.

If you want to see how all those bunnies got their curves, Jezebel found lots of photo editors’ notes among the Playboy items offered in a new Christie’s auction (see the post ‘How Your Playboy Centerfold Sausage Is Made’).

Why release the digital archives now? Well, Playboy certainly wasn’t going to try it when they would have been saved to floppy disk.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.