Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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Post by cion » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

Vintage Byte Magazine Library
vintageapple.org

Re: Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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Post by cpr » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

Nostalgia!

Was an early editor/writer for Byte in the very early days (first few issues), though had to back off due to school load (in college at the time).

Carl Helmers and Dan Fylstra (founder of VisiCorp (publisher of VisiCalc), friend from high school days in San Diego) and I were all working at Intermetrics in Cambridge, and got together to start Byte, visiting Wayne and Virginia Green (big ham radio publisher at the time) in New Hampshire.

I only played a minor role, but it was definitely a lot of fun.

Re: Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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Post by aplc0r » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

Though the magazine was largely before my time, I have an art print of the cover for the May 1981 [1] issue and it makes me smile every time.

[1] https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198105_Byte_Magazine_Vol_0...

Re: Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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Post by cristoperb » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

Here's what's available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?&sort=date

I'm not sure what's missing there, but it sounds like this collection fills in some gaps.

Re: Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

From a couple years ago maybe?

Some other Byte mag convos lately:

week ago on cover art https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607038

Logo language issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603556

another cover archive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26453783

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Post by dfphil » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

Back in the 70’s I read kilobyte, excuse me, baud. But Byte magazine was cool, too.

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Post by rbanffy » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

cpr wrote: post #2

Nostalgia! Was an early editor/writer for Byte in the very early days (first few issues), though had to back off due to school load (in college at the time). Carl Helmers and Dan Fylstra (founder of VisiCorp (publisher of VisiCalc), friend from high school days in San Diego) and I were all working at Intermetrics in Cambridge, and got together to start Byte, visiting Wayne and Virginia Green (big ham radio publisher…

Thank you. I read it for years. In college we had an extensive collection that went back many years and I lost count of how many hours I spent reading them in the library.

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Post by blondin » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

thanks for sharing!

just recently re-read the sep, oct, and nov 78 issues on implementing tiny pascal. what a cliffhanger! they were like send money for the listing of the 8080 machine translator (which is what i was most interested in haha)

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Post by discreteevent » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

Looking at one of these now I remember how magazines made technology very exciting (I don't think it was just because I was younger). I think a lot of it was down to the visuals. You just won't get illustrations like that on someone's blog. The illustrations made the technology seem more real and certainly more glamorous.

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Post by akvadrako » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

Another source for Byte covers is https://pestingers.net/pages-images/antique-computers/byte-m...