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I’m always amused that this is called a magazine. At least this particular issue. It’s nearly 500 pages long!! Those magazine tended to be big, but Byte was at
by protomyth 7y ago
I’m always amused that this is called a magazine. At least this particular issue. It’s nearly 500 pages long!!
Those magazine tended to be big, but Byte was at the top of its class. The only thing bigger I can remember was Computer Shopper, and that was massive.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoByte had a bit more content, computer shopper was mostly ads.
- analog31 7y agoIndeed, it was pretty typical to have a subscription to Byte, but buy an issue of Computer Shopper just when it was time to get a new computer. That, or see if someone else already had a recent issue.
- heelix 7y agoIt was the place to mail order components too! If you were building a system back in those days, that was one of the better tomes to dig through to find deals. That was really the only good place to find competitive offerings of a VESA local bus video card and find venders who you could trust. Good times.
- protomyth 7y agoComputer Shopper actually had some pretty good columnists working for it. Also, in a lot of ways at that time in the industry, the ads were great content.
- maire 7y agoByte magazine was like a paper github. People published everything including the source code for BITBLT. A scoundrel later patented BITBLT and sued Xerox! It wasn't difficult for Xerox defend against the fake patent since it was published in Byte. One issue had the entire source code for the Star Trek game written in Basic. This brings back memories.