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That BYTE issue is so incredibly fascinating. Thanks a lot for posting it. The in-depth interviews with Hertzfeld, Atkinson, Jobs, a diagram of the Mac's memory
by gregsadetsky 5y ago
That BYTE issue is so incredibly fascinating. Thanks a lot for posting it. The in-depth interviews with Hertzfeld, Atkinson, Jobs, a diagram of the Mac's memory map (page 40), a block diagram of the Mac hardware (page 36), etc.
- killion 5y agoIt also reminds me that computer magazines were ~500 pages when I was a kid.
- themodelplumber 5y agoPersonally I can't believe how many of those pages I actually read and processed. It makes me reflect that a lot of what I'm doing on the web these days really is reading, even though it doesn't involve books, and is comparatively technical/informational. Those mags were fun though, and I remember reactions from "check out how many stars they gave Turbo Pascal" to "what a goofy author photo" to "somebody wrote in with a great system script" to "oh there's an obscure game company in Vermont still writing arcade titles for dad's office computer" :-)
- watersb 5y agoYeah that issue is a masterpiece. You should also check out the BYTE Smalltalk issue: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08