Byte Magazine

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Anyone here old enough to remember Byte Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_magazine)? I sure do. Especially the wonderful cover illustrations by Robert Tinney (http://www.tinney.net/). I subscribed for about a dozen years, if I recall correctly, from 1978 into the late 80's or early 90's.

I'm getting old. <sigh> :(

[logical muse]

Ahh.. Steve Ciarcia's Cirucit Cellar did it for me. :)

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Ahh.. Steve Ciarcia's Cirucit Cellar did it for me. :)

I remember it well.

[logical muse]

I was a subscriber for many years as well, although I'd always get them a couple of months late over here in Australia. I still have all my old copies. Yeah it was a great mag in the early days.

Dammit, you've made me go all nostalgic. Where's my old Kraftwerk album?

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I kept my issues around for a number of years after I stopped subscribing. At some point I got tired of looking at them, and threw them away. I wish I had them back. Same for old kilobaud issues. :(

[logical muse]

And I've still got my old Elektor mags, and Electronics Today International and Electronics Australia and all my old guitar mags and every bloody t-shirt I ever bought and every computer as well!

[RSLancastr]

I think the only issue I have kept is the one introducing the IBM PC, with an original PC on the cover. Monochrome monitor, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, no hard drive...

Good times.

[Hamradioguy]

Ah yes, Byte Magazine. If you want more background on this (and the shortlived "Kilobyte" Magazine) find a copy of "See Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run" by G. Williamson (Virginia Green's current husband). Fascinating reading.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Ah yes, Byte Magazine. If you want more background on this (and the shortlived "Kilobyte" Magazine) find a copy of "See Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run" by G. Williamson (Virginia Green's current husband). Fascinating reading.

I assume you meant "kilobaud" magazine?

[Achán hiNidráne]

When I was a kid I used to read "Enter:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_%28magazine%29

[Darat]

Used to buy Byte - as an imported mag it was hideously expensive to buy out of my pocket money plus normally about 4 or 4 months behind the USA street date.

UK mag nostalgia trip: http://www.davidviner.com/mags.php

[kevin]

You know Byte is still available right? It's an online only mag now. It's print archives for 1994-98 appear to be online. Also I think you can get a CD of earlier material.

http://www.byte.com/

New material requires a subscription. I keep meaning to subscribe. Guess I'll try to remember this week.

I remember the covers from the print editions the most. The one that really sticks in my mind was a pirate ship with a floppy disk for a sail. I need a t-shirt of that one.

[a_unique_person]

I used to buy it when I could afford it. I still have a copy I bought back in about 1978. I really, really tried to read and understand it all, and wish I could be clever enough to write my own assembler.

[Chris Haynes]

My hubby starting subscribing with issue #1... and before that he had a few issues of Computing 73. The latter being an off shoot of magazine for ham radio.

Before computers came around he was into ham radio... but truly only building the equipment. He was a shy nerd and did not like talking to strangers, so he was very very glad when computers came around. As a college student he spent his extra change buying parts for his first homebrew computer... including coming home with a blank keyboard circuit board and a paper bag of blank keys. I used to have to climb over a box of parts to my side of the bed in that tiny apartment.

His first homebrew used CPM and had an 8" floppy drive. He drove me nuts nipping out the access hole in the case, and then went and ruined one of my glass baking pans to etch a board.

The last computer he built is what he is on now... and it drove him nuts because the first hard drive he tried to install was bad. He almost built me a system, we got all the way through Fry's with a cart full of parts --- until we realized that for the same amount we could get an already built machine for the same cost and less headache (I got a refurbished HP).

In my basement is a large plastic box full of electronic bits and pieces that he will not let me throw away. It has a couple of very large capacitors, at least one blank board... and lots of different colored wires that I have snuck out of it to put on a robot costume.

Also in our basement is 10 years worth of Byte starting at issue #1, he stopped subscribing years ago.

Along with a bunch of other magazines he now gets (EE Times, C/C++, MSDN, etc, most of which are free)... dear hubby subscribes to the Langalist, which I believe he told me was from a former Byte contributer.

[Hamradioguy]

I assume you meant "kilobaud" magazine?

Well, it started out-very briefly- as "Kilobyte". Certain, um, "legal issues" caused that title to quickly disappear! (Wayne Green always did have an odd sense of humor.....)