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I saw the Altair 8800 on the cover of BYTE magazine in a newsstand in LA as a child and begged my grandparents for a copy. Reading that magazine changed my life

I saw the Altair 8800 on the cover of BYTE magazine in a newsstand in LA as a child and begged my grandparents for a copy. Reading that magazine changed my life and started my journey into programming.

cxr 2y ago
The January 1977 issue: <https://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-covers/BYTE-1977-01-cov1.jpg https://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-covers/BYTE-1...>
- dtagames 2y ago
  I was 9. I'll never forget it. Taught myself programming that year entirely from library books.