Are there any modern tech magazines that capture anything similar to the wonder of these, instead of feeling like a collections of advertisements and ego pieces on Elon Musk?
Vintage Byte Magazine Library
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#62The predictions for the future of computing, December 1996, had some truly prescient gems. And a few misses. > We may experience a gradual drift into a surveillance society ... > The merging of cellular phones, portable computers, and highspeed networked servers offers many exciting possibilities. > The Internet will be as ubiquitous in our lives as cable television is today. https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199612_…
I think I still have the print edition of this issue.
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#63I miss BYTE. Growing up in a country where we didn't have much resources and certainly no money to actually own a computer, but the school library did have a subscription to a few mags. BYTE was amazing.
Is there any mirror? I'd rather not put more strain on his server. And are there archives of other mags like Dr.Dobbs?
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#64I read these as a kid, but I got a few of these from the antique mall a few weeks ago and I was amazed at how half baked it was at times (the industry was moving so fast a few months of latency meant they were often out of date.)
Steve Ciracia was the guy holding it all together. Every month he published a hardware project that was commercial quality (you could buy it) except for the occasional two month project. It was a running gag that he coded with a soldering iron, struggled with assembly, probably didn’t know basic and logo, forget about it.
Despite that some months he would answer all the letters to the editor which ranged from ‘too bad they don’t document things like this’, to ‘you can buy that from the Jameco catalog’ to ‘here are three ways to fix a corrupted word star disk if you moved it to a subdirectory because it was written for DOS 1 and doesn’t support subdirectories.’
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#65Hey guys, Peter here from vintageapple.org. My server is experiencing a bit of a hug of death from this. Please be kind and don't try to download everything all at once. I've had to apply a rate limit to that site for now to make sure the applications I'm hosting continue to work.
Thanks kindly for the uploads, and thanks for letting us know about the current status. BYTE helped shape my life.
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#66Nostalgia! 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…
BYTE was amazing. Feel proud of what you helped create. I met Wayne in the mid 2000s and had him on my radio show multiple times. Amazing character. I miss him.
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#67I miss those days so much. 80s computer magazines were exciting. The web is great, but it doesn't have the anticipation of waiting for the next issue and then sitting down to dig into it with focused attention to see what was fresh and new and to be wowed by all the things you couldn't afford. A 20 megabyte hard drive for ONLY $1000? That's a good price! Unimaginable luxury, I only had floppy disks into the 1990s. I…
The September 1983 issue of COMPUTE! was my introduction to programming. Still have it, and just showed it to my kid, who didn't understand its appeal at all. I later became a columnist, and it was an amazing experience.
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#68> Hi Hacker News folks. Thanks for visiting. Unfortunately all the simultanious connectons downloading large PDFs is putting a bit of strain on my server which is also serving some other important stuff.I've had to apply a rate limit to the site to make sure everyting still works reasonably
If only there was a tool to offload this static content to a network of peers so bandwidth usage was not an issue. We could call it Flood to emphasize the large amount of traffic.
Joke aside, I refrained from looking around because if the server is struggling, my nostalgia can wait a few days.
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#69I read these as a kid, but I got a few of these from the antique mall a few weeks ago and I was amazed at how half baked it was at times (the industry was moving so fast a few months of latency meant they were often out of date.) Steve Ciracia was the guy holding it all together. Every month he published a hardware project that was commercial quality (you could buy it) except for the occasional two month project. It…
I worked at a place where we used one of Steve Ciarcias circuits - the 8052-AH Basic module and used it as a security controller. We took the circuit as it was in the magazine, and built it and added some optocouplers and it worked, it was unique. Upon thought, I think we also used an 8051 microcontroller circuit as well.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or... It's subscription only, and maybe those other things don't matter so much.
No one can resist adsense. "Yeah let's just skip out on that $50k a month, our customers don't want to see all those ads." The incintive, like free money for corporate stock buybacks, is just irresistible.
All depends on the format, does it not?
A printed publication, perhaps with audio supplement (podcast type thing), would not be a venue. And at the same time, may well be super compelling, given it has an industry voice and perspective similar to what BYTE had.