Byte magazine archives

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Post by ohjeez » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

Byte magazine archives
archive.org

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by hga » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

Cool. Here's the fall 1979 Lisp issue: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by evaneykelen » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 7:38 PM UTC

I remember reading Jerry Pournelle "Chaos Manor" every month, as a 14 year old. English is not my first language and I'm sure reading Byte has taught me a lot of English. Fond memories.

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by kar1181 » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:24 PM UTC

This is brilliant, thanks for linking this up.

Here is the famous Smalltalk issue Aug 1981. http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by Gormo » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

Archive.org has a lot of collections of periodicals, and there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, especially stuff relating to computer history. They've got the full archives of the old Computer Chronicles TV show on there as well.

But their UI for browsing these collections is unusable. I haven't been able to find any way of exploring these collections chronologically, or searching within the content ofa specific collection or issue and sorting/filtering the results to identify what I'm looking for.

Compare this to the way Google organizes similar collections: here's their archive of InfoWorld, going back to 1975: http://books.google.com/books?id=tDcEAAAAMBAJ

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by jim02672 » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:31 PM UTC

There is also a torrent ( http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7978965/ ) which has the ones at archive.org and more, with some replaced with higher quality scans. And ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ has some that aren't in either the torrent or archive.org yet.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ is where people doing the scanning are/were hanging out. Scanning seems to have kinda stalled recently. :(

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by analog31 » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

In the early 80's, my mom got a subscription to Byte, and I eagerly awaited every issue. My drug of choice was "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar," which forged a connection for me, between my nascent interests in electronics and programming.

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by sehugg » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

Ah, so many memories.

How Text Adventures Work! http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-12/1980_12_BYTE...

What is FORTH? http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYTE...

The Coinless Arcade! http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE...

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by marshray » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 11:52 PM UTC

Hooray!

But this isn't going to stop me from taking 200 pounds of physical Byte with me to every new home I move.

Re: Byte magazine archives

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Post by e12e » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

evaneykelen wrote: post #3

I remember reading Jerry Pournelle "Chaos Manor" every month, as a 14 year old. English is not my first language and I'm sure reading Byte has taught me a lot of English. Fond memories.

Oh, the memories indeed...:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail84...