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There were all kinds of interesting articles in BYTE. I remember finding a whole box of them when I was still in grade school - tossed out by the public library
by sounds 14y ago
There were all kinds of interesting articles in BYTE. I remember finding a whole box of them when I was still in grade school - tossed out by the public library - and I spent the summer reading and memorizing them.
Somehow I missed this interview until now. Cheers, Stallman!
- rbanffy 14y agoI've probably failed a couple tests in engineering school (took fluid mechanics 3 times) because of the time I spent reading the library's almost complete collection. BYTE was a magazine for another time, when new didn't mean "the latest, incrementally faster, x86 architecture capable of running Windows". Wow... I'm really gloomy today.
- sounds 14y agoI hope this cheered you up. :-)
- xradionut 14y agoI spent summers with my dad who was an instructor at a large techincal college. The hot Texas afternoons were spent reading Byte and designing computers looked very much like Steve Ciarcia's.
- sounds 14y agoI particularly liked the Circuit Cellar where he had to break into his own house because he left the stove on. By the time he could disarm the system, the stove would start smoking which would auto-dial the city fire department. First he invades the yard with its dog-deterrents, then slips into the house bypassing the window sensors, skips over the pressure-sensitive carpets, dodges a bunch of other things, and finally makes it to the basement where the alarm box is. He needs light so he opens the fridge - alas, that sets of the alarm but the alarm doesn't successfully dial. :-) I googled but couldn't find it online. Good times. :-)