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I loved and I miss BYTE magazine.

• quantified 5y ago
  +1. Dates us, but the magazine and the era itself fit so well together I thought.
• tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  It was a different age. Somehow this industry lost something when it became mainstream and as much as I rely on the web it is like drinking from a firehose. Dr Dobbs was great as well.
• TYPE_FASTER 5y ago
  What's interesting is, looking at back issues, it could still be relevant today, with up-to-date content. Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar is still going (https://circuitcellar.com/ https://circuitcellar.com/), and Hacker News contains links to similar content regarding the latest and greatest hardware and programming languages. I can picture the Byte take on Apple's processors in my head.
• 8bitsrule 5y ago
  The covers bring back memories of how big BYTE got. I often had a look at it at the library, and remember picking up an issue that had to have been an inch thick. I just had a look in Wiki and 'Byte's 1982 average number of pages was 543.... The October 1984 issue had about 300 pages of ads sold at an average of $6,000 per page.' (Quite a bit of money 40 years ago.)