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I subscribed to Byte Magazine from 1985 to about 1988 or 89. My feeling was that by 1985, Byte had drifted away from the hobbyist market and was drifting more
by spc476 4y ago
I subscribed to Byte Magazine from 1985 to about 1988 or 89. My feeling was that by 1985, Byte had drifted away from the hobbyist market and was drifting more towards a computer science journal (kind of). By late 1987 it had shifted more towards a PC rag what with the rise of the 386 clones during that period.
It definitely wasn't worth reading once Robert Tinney stopped doing the covers.
- retrocryptid 4y agoThere were some decent issues in the late 80s, but yeah, it had passed its prime. They relaunched as a website in... uh... 2009 maybe? I had a long conversation with the editor at that time about what I loved about Byte and Dr. Dobbs in the early days. I think it went over their heads and they sort of went back to "reviewing mice and computer monitors."