Love the idea... loathe the interactive design implementation.
Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
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Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#62Love the idea... loathe the interactive design implementation.
I suggest everyone pull down the archive on … archive.org [1].
For me anyway (and it sounds like a few of you as well), whiling away looking through a random BYTE issue from the past can be enjoyable.
(I have in fact now close to a TB of magazines as PDFs downloaded/offline just for this sort of reminiscing. Magazine packs make it easy [2].)
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
BYTE was best before Jerry Pournelle showed up.
Chaos manor was sort of a proto-blog. I enjoyed it well enough. As I say, Byte worked well enough as sort of extended hobbyist/nerd zine until that didn't really work as well any longer.
Chaos manor was . Readers were being both talked at and down to. BYTE would have been better without it.
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#64Just fabulous. Reading Byte in the Science Library at Uni while studying accounting was one of the things that got me interested in computing so many years ago. Thank you!
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#65Its certainly beautiful to look at but the search capability itself is not very good.
I was unable to find information mentioned in some ads, and couldn't figure out why. The scanned text was reasonably legible that I would assume it would have OCRed correctly.
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#66Fun bit of trivia: Byte was edited and published in Peterborough, New Hampshire. If you've ever been to that area of the world, you'd know how totally absurd it is that such an influential, world-renowned tech magazine was based there. Nominally, the offices were located sorta near Boston, which at the time had some important tech companies like Digital and Lotus, amongst others. But Peterborough was a small, rural,…
Wayne Green [0] is responsible for that. Responsible for some publishing innovation in the electronics world, he started with writing about radioteletypes for hams in the 50s, and moved up to Peterborough after starting 73 magazine
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#67This is beautiful, thank you!
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#68Fun bit of trivia: Byte was edited and published in Peterborough, New Hampshire. If you've ever been to that area of the world, you'd know how totally absurd it is that such an influential, world-renowned tech magazine was based there. Nominally, the offices were located sorta near Boston, which at the time had some important tech companies like Digital and Lotus, amongst others. But Peterborough was a small, rural,…
Not really that odd. Yes, Lotus was in Boston (Cambridge actually). But the computer industry was mostly west and northwest of the city. Digital had a big campus in Nashua over the border from MA in NH. (I think Oracle is there now.) Lots of people at many of the computer companies actually lived in NH.
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#69Thank you for doing this, this is fun. Also, I love all the nostalgic comments.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Robert Tinney the artist who illustrated many of the covers. His work is pretty amazing, and seemed to capture all sorts of interesting ideas.
I met him once at a computer show. I was in too much in awe that I didn't really talk with him, but was able to give him some praise for his artwork. Also, I bought one of the t-shirts with his artwork.
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#70Great work sending me down nostalgia memory lane!