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Computing sort of got too big. Early on, Byte could be eclectic with lots of different architectural discussions and hardware like circuit cellar. But from my p
by ghaff 1y ago
Computing sort of got too big. Early on, Byte could be eclectic with lots of different architectural discussions and hardware like circuit cellar. But from my perspective they got to a point where they were, for lack of a better word, pretty random. I was at an event where they were trying to reboot sometime in the 2000s but not sure what the market was for a popular computing magazine trying to cover all the bases at that point.
- pklausler 1y agoBYTE was best before Jerry Pournelle showed up.
- ghaff 1y agoChaos manor was sort of a proto-blog. I enjoyed it well enough. As I say, Byte worked well enough as sort of extended hobbyist/nerd zine until that didn't really work as well any longer.
- sitkack 1y agoChaos manor was <uncharitable>. Readers were being both talked at and down to. BYTE would have been better without it.