Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by belter » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 5:44 AM UTC

Byte Magazine 1975-1995
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Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by daneel_w » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 12:39 PM UTC

Computer magazine/book art from the 70s and 80s is almost an artistic style of its own. I love browsing old issues of Byte, COMPUTE!'s Gazette etc. just to see the imaginative graphical work.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by klelatti » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:02 PM UTC

Does anyone know of a similar archive for Personal Computer World which was (sort of) the UK equivalent to Byte? The Internet Archive has a quite a few but is also missing a lot too.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by bouvin » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:03 PM UTC

Something that fascinated me back in the day (and something that I have not seen mentioned, whenever BYTE comes up here), when I as a teenager read BYTE (initially borrowed from the local Danish municipal library) was the transcripts from BIX [1]. It offered a tantalising view into the world of BBS (and what would come later through Usenet etc), before such things were widely accessible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by winstonprivacy » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:11 PM UTC

I loved this magazine. I was actually in one of them (I was 11 at the time). I'm going to have to find that.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by tyingq » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:12 PM UTC

Interesting juxtaposition to today, I bought Byte MOSTLY for the ads. The computer scene was changing so fast in the 80's that the ads were interesting and wanted.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by greenbit » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #6

Interesting juxtaposition to today, I bought Byte MOSTLY for the ads. The computer scene was changing so fast in the 80's that the ads were interesting and wanted.

The ads are still fascinating. Makes you appreciate 32G of RAM when you see 16K on sale! for $150

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by fatnoah » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #6

Interesting juxtaposition to today, I bought Byte MOSTLY for the ads. The computer scene was changing so fast in the 80's that the ads were interesting and wanted.

That's a great observation. Back in the day, I'd buy many magazines for the ads almost as much as the content.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by richardjam73 » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

The scans from here differ from the ones on the Internet Archive. These are lower quality (Marks on pages, yellower, compression artifacts, bleed through, inconsistant page sizes) but as a result are much smaller. They are watermarked on each page. This archive also seems more complete than the IA one.

Re: Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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Post by brk » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #6

Interesting juxtaposition to today, I bought Byte MOSTLY for the ads. The computer scene was changing so fast in the 80's that the ads were interesting and wanted.

Hell, in its prime Computer Shopper was a GIANT magazine of just ads, that you paid for.

I remember ordering computer parts over the phone, delivered COD, because I was 12, and didn't have a credit card or a checking account.