TAP editor Tom Edison’s candid appeal to readers about the newsletter’s finances, describing rising printing and postage costs and threatening to dock issues from subscribers who don’t buy merchandise, alongside the usual classified listings. Read more →

Reader classifieds spanning novelty items, survival/security publications, and personals, plus a tongue-in-cheek rant from a contributor accusing another writer of ripping off TAP’s copyrighted material. Read more →

Carries an Abbie Hoffman Defense Fund clemency appeal, an announcement of TAP’s upcoming 10th-anniversary double issue and a planned ‘Best of TAP’ anthology, and a reprinted trade-press account of the WATS-80 phreak convention. Read more →

Alongside the usual classified listings, this edition carries a news item announcing WATS-80, a Washington DC symposium for telecommunications hobbyists co-sponsored by TAP. Read more →

A typical issue of the ad sheet, carrying reader classifieds across for-sale, wanted, trade, personals, and services categories, plus TAP’s standard merchandise and subscription price list. Read more →

Because only one ad arrived in time for this edition, the space was used to print a full alphabetical subject index to TAP issues 24 through 50, compiled by a reader, alongside one classified ad. Read more →

Debut issue of TAP’s standalone classified ad sheet, shipped alongside issues 57 and 58; introduces the ad-rate policy and prints early buy/sell/wanted/trade listings from readers. Read more →