Steve Ciarcia was my big reason for reading Byte. He was an incredibly skilled hardware hacker. I subscribed to Circuit Cellar Magazine after he left Byte. H

Steve Ciarcia was my big reason for reading Byte. He was an incredibly skilled hardware hacker. I subscribed to Circuit Cellar Magazine after he left Byte. He once built a purpose-built board for calculating and generating fractal images, and you could parallel up the boards to generate the image faster. Pournelle never did much for me. He spent most of his time rambling about esoteric problems he was having and how he worked around them.