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Never heard of it.

comatose_kid 16y ago
Woah - how can people not know about this magazine? It is pretty much a chronicle of the earlier days of computing. Byte gave us articles like this: "The Impossible Dream: Computing e to 116,000 places with a Personal Computer" by Stephen Wozniak, published in Byte Magazine Vol 6, Issue 6 (June 1981, pp392). Heavy-duty writing, some pretty hard core engineering stuff . I recall the mac review, as well as the chief hardware designer of the Atari 520ST giving details about its architecture, down to the memory access schemes. It's the Beatles of computer periodicals :)
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  > Woah - how can people not know about this magazine? It is pretty much a chronicle of the earlier days of computing. You might be surprised to learn that some of us hadn't been born yet in 1981 ;)
  - ericd 16y ago
    Well, its final issue was in 1998, so that still leaves a lot of leeway for those not born in 1981 :-)
- waterlesscloud 16y ago
  There was a long series of articles about building a computer from the circuit board up, s-100 bus if I recall correctly. And an article on lisp that blew my delicate 12 year old mind. Edit- check out the April 85 issue on AI, and look at those authors. Quite the lineup. http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/issue/145.en.html http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/issue/145.en.html
  - waterlesscloud 16y ago
    There was another very cool magazine in the early 90s, Midnight Engineering. Essentially a magazine for startups, though I remember it being hardware focused. It was a 1 man operation. One guy put it together, wrote most of it, did the layout, sold the ads, and perhaps most impressively (or insanely) printed it all himself. He bought this whole giant printing press system and ran it himself. Had a fascinating series of articles on everything that was involved in getting that up and running.
Zev 16y ago
Its from the mid '70's and stopped publishing in the late 90's. I suppose that you'd have to either be slightly old (late 20's) or a computer history geek to know about it. I'm the latter -- they stopped publishing when I was 9 (!) years old
- kajecounterhack 16y ago
  Yup, I'm 20 right now, so that was when I was 8 years old. I imagine everyone under the age of 25 frequenting this site is unlikely to remember / know about the magazine. Still cool to see a piece of history come back through!
- mindcrime 16y ago
  Heh, it's always funny to hear youngsters talk about what's "old" to them. And even funnier, is that pretty much every group has an older group looking back and going "you kids don't know what old is yet, now get the hell off my lawn." Late 20's is young as shit to me.... now you 60+ year old fossils who might be hanging around can go write some COBOL or whatever it is you do... <tongue_firmly_in_cheek />
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- kenver 16y ago
  I'm 29 and that's the first time in my life someones called me 'slightly old'. I'll treasure this moment.

Never heard of it.

Woah - how can people not know about this magazine? It is pretty much a chronicle of the earlier days of computing. Byte gave us articles like this: "The Impossible Dream: Computing e to 116,000 places with a Personal Computer" by Stephen Wozniak, published in Byte Magazine Vol 6, Issue 6 (June 1981, pp392). Heavy-duty writing, some pretty hard core engineering stuff . I recall the mac review, as well as the chief hardware designer of the Atari 520ST giving details about its architecture, down to the memory access schemes. It's the Beatles of computer periodicals :)

w1ntermute 16y ago
> Woah - how can people not know about this magazine? It is pretty much a chronicle of the earlier days of computing. You might be surprised to learn that some of us hadn't been born yet in 1981 ;)
- ericd 16y ago
  Well, its final issue was in 1998, so that still leaves a lot of leeway for those not born in 1981 :-)
waterlesscloud 16y ago
There was a long series of articles about building a computer from the circuit board up, s-100 bus if I recall correctly. And an article on lisp that blew my delicate 12 year old mind. Edit- check out the April 85 issue on AI, and look at those authors. Quite the lineup. http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/issue/145.en.html http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/issue/145.en.html
- waterlesscloud 16y ago
  There was another very cool magazine in the early 90s, Midnight Engineering. Essentially a magazine for startups, though I remember it being hardware focused. It was a 1 man operation. One guy put it together, wrote most of it, did the layout, sold the ads, and perhaps most impressively (or insanely) printed it all himself. He bought this whole giant printing press system and ran it himself. Had a fascinating series of articles on everything that was involved in getting that up and running.

Zev 16y ago

Its from the mid '70's and stopped publishing in the late 90's. I suppose that you'd have to either be slightly old (late 20's) or a computer history geek to know about it. I'm the latter -- they stopped publishing when I was 9 (!) years old

kajecounterhack 16y ago
Yup, I'm 20 right now, so that was when I was 8 years old. I imagine everyone under the age of 25 frequenting this site is unlikely to remember / know about the magazine. Still cool to see a piece of history come back through!
mindcrime 16y ago
Heh, it's always funny to hear youngsters talk about what's "old" to them. And even funnier, is that pretty much every group has an older group looking back and going "you kids don't know what old is yet, now get the hell off my lawn." Late 20's is young as shit to me.... now you 60+ year old fossils who might be hanging around can go write some COBOL or whatever it is you do... <tongue_firmly_in_cheek />
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kenver 16y ago
I'm 29 and that's the first time in my life someones called me 'slightly old'. I'll treasure this moment.