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Steve Ciarcia’s Byte magazine articles are a great read (in fact all of Byte was great) - being enthralled by them as a kid but not understanding them probably
by helsinkiandrew 2y ago
Steve Ciarcia’s Byte magazine articles are a great read (in fact all of Byte was great) - being enthralled by them as a kid but not understanding them probably had a large effect on me choosing to study electronics.
https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE
- jdblair 2y agosame here!
- upon_drumhead 2y agoFrom the comments on the archive.org details, that archive is missing years, the original source of the scans is http://vintageapple.org/byte http://vintageapple.org/byte , and it has all of them
- helsinkiandrew 2y agoThanks for that!
- analog31 2y agoMy mom subscribed to Byte magazine, and Ciarcia's articles were inspiring to me too. That, and Goedel, Escher, Bach. Oddly enough I ended up at a college with no engineering program, but my physics professor was an electronics expert, and I majored in math and physics. Since then, virtually everything I've done with physics has involved electronics and computers, often working together. Radio Shack had a book on the Z80, that I think was the same as the Howard Sams book, but with a different cover. It was so clearly written, that even to this day, my ability to conceptualize the innards of computers is strongly biased by the Z80 architecture.