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I always got a laugh at Byte's motto: "A Small Systems Journal." At about one inch thick, it was anything but small.
by cc101 3y ago
I always got a laugh at Byte's motto: "A Small Systems Journal." At about one inch thick, it was anything but small.
- II2II 3y agoI always assumed they the small referred to the systems (i.e. microcomputers) rather than the size of the journal. I doubt the term "personal computer" even existed when Byte was born.
- teh_klev 3y agoIt's an inside joke. Byte at its peak had some issues that were nearly an inch thick and could easily be used as a murder weapon.
- justin66 3y ago> I always assumed they the small referred to the systems (i.e. microcomputers) rather than the size of the journal. That is correct.
- cc101 3y agoAdjectives don't nest. Lists of adjectives all apply to the subject not each other. Each adjectives applies without reference to others.
- sokoloff 3y agoI’d argue that in “dark red paint” that most people would say that dark modifies red rather than paint. (Same/maybe more clear in the phrase “candy apple red paint”)
- DonHopkins 3y agoThat's why God invented Parens. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08
- zabzonk 3y agomostly adverts. but i did like it!
- slowmovintarget 3y agoWell compared to Computer Shopper, Byte was small. I recall walking out of the book store with the oversized Computer Shopper, roughly two inches thick, newsprint contents. It was like walking out with a phone book every month. I recall when they went to a smaller format. The world had changed. Sigh.
- TMWNN 3y agoBYTE came close, but not quite as thick as PC Magazine, which hit 800 pages in December 1983 <https://books.google.com/books?id=05wAGZQlo9QC&pg=PP1 https://books.google.com/books?id=05wAGZQlo9QC&pg=PP1>, forcing it to appear every two weeks.