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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 Imp
by 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 agoWell, its final issue was in 1998, so that still leaves a lot of leeway for those not born in 1981 :-)
- waterlesscloud 16y agoThere 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 agoThere 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.