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Various archives: * https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE/197509_Byte_Magazine_Vol_00-01_The_Worlds_Greatest_Toy/ https://archive.org/details/BYTE

Various archives: * https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE/197509_Byte_Magazine_Vol_00-01_The_Worlds_Greatest_Toy/ https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE/197509_By... * https://archive.org/download/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE https://archive.org/download/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE * https://vintageapple.org/byte/ https://vintageapple.org/byte/ * https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm * 5mo ago, "Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45028002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45028002 Had a subscription to it in the 1990s. Probably one of the best computing magazines that existed (it covered all sorts of topics, from CPU cache workings to file systems (like Veritas)).

muyuu 8mo ago
wonderful stuff I have a bunch of the old ones from my late father, I have sunk thousands of hours in old computer magazines, there's something special to them that the new world cannot capture anymore.
- xattt 8mo ago
  It was the accessibility. You were learning computing concepts from scratch, that would then increase in complexity in real-time as your learning caught up if you were actively engaged.
  - muyuu 8mo ago
    also the importance and the degree of care that was put into things that were published, and what all the constraints meant also in computing itself there were strong positives to that, and they just cannot be replicated in a society of hyper-abundance and slop
rbanffy 8mo ago
It was an amazing magazine, one we still need to this day. I still subscribe to a couple magazines, IEEE's Computer, Micro, and Spectrum, and Communications of the ACM, on paper, and IEEE's Software on PDF, but none covers the breadth and depth of BYTE. I still feel a bit like an orphan.
- timthorn 8mo ago
  I bought myself a 3 year subscription with my very first pay cheque. I got 2 or 3 issues before it went under. As a way of teaching a teenager about the full range of computer technology from the Cambridge Active Badge through to Big Data, it was and is unmatched.
  - rbanffy 8mo ago
    That was a very sad day, not only for your cheque.

muyuu 8mo ago

wonderful stuff I have a bunch of the old ones from my late father, I have sunk thousands of hours in old computer magazines, there's something special to them that the new world cannot capture anymore.

xattt 8mo ago
It was the accessibility. You were learning computing concepts from scratch, that would then increase in complexity in real-time as your learning caught up if you were actively engaged.
- muyuu 8mo ago
  also the importance and the degree of care that was put into things that were published, and what all the constraints meant also in computing itself there were strong positives to that, and they just cannot be replicated in a society of hyper-abundance and slop

rbanffy 8mo ago

It was an amazing magazine, one we still need to this day. I still subscribe to a couple magazines, IEEE's Computer, Micro, and Spectrum, and Communications of the ACM, on paper, and IEEE's Software on PDF, but none covers the breadth and depth of BYTE. I still feel a bit like an orphan.

timthorn 8mo ago
I bought myself a 3 year subscription with my very first pay cheque. I got 2 or 3 issues before it went under. As a way of teaching a teenager about the full range of computer technology from the Cambridge Active Badge through to Big Data, it was and is unmatched.
- rbanffy 8mo ago
  That was a very sad day, not only for your cheque.