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BYTE was great, sort of a microcomputing version of the more upmarket mini-/mainframe Datamation magazine. But as a hobbyist I was more drawn to Creative Comput
by zuminator 8y ago
BYTE was great, sort of a microcomputing version of the more upmarket mini-/mainframe Datamation magazine. But as a hobbyist I was more drawn to Creative Computing [1] and the even funkier Compute! [2] magazine in its exclamation point heyday.
1. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
2. https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine
- jlc 8y agoOh man! I forgot all about Creative Computing. I loved Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette and Byte though.
- ChrisGranger 8y agoI was a big fan of Compute! and Compute's! Gazette as well. There were also Ahoy! And Ahoy!'s AmigaUser: https://archive.org/details/ahoy-magazine https://archive.org/details/ahoy-magazine
- vram22 8y agoCUJ (C User's Journal, but it covered C++ too) and DDJ (Dr. Dobb's Journal) were great too. Not sure about CUJ, but DDJ stopped a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/C%2B%2B_Users_Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/C%2B%2B_Users_Journal Both of them used to have really solid programming content for quite a while. BYTE, IIRC, became much commercial and ad-oriented in its later years, with less of quality tech content for makers, and more of product reviews and such, instead.
- vram22 8y ago>but DDJ stopped a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal#End https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal#End http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-dobbs/240169421 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-d...