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Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.

tjr 13y ago
I didn't discover Byte until the 1990s, in college. I often sat in the library reading back issues. When I finally subscribed to the magazine myself, I only received a few months' worth before they folded up shop! Great memories nevertheless.
- rwmj 13y ago
  The closure of Byte magazine is a rather sorry tale: http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html
- rbanffy 13y ago
  > I often sat in the library reading back issues Luckily, my college had a very complete collection of BYTE, dating back to their second or third year. I am quite sure I read everything they had.
protomyth 13y ago
I miss Creative Computing, too. It was the philosophy to Byte's technical vision.
ghshephard 13y ago
Byte was one of the clear contenders for the best (if not the best) general computer magazine - but as an avid commodore 64 hacker back in 1982-1983, Compute!, with it's monthly updates on various things like undocumented 6510 opcodes, and their interesting assembly programs that we typed in by hand (mostly consisting of a bunch of data/poke statements, will always hold a warm place in my heart.
- kenjackson 13y ago
  Compute was awesome. Probably the only magazine that actually made me a better programmer.
- andyidsinga 13y ago
  compute was awesome ..and where i got my start programming
- vidarh 13y ago
  Take a look here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/
- nostromo 13y ago
  You're in luck: http://archive.org/details/compute-magazine http://archive.org/details/compute-magazine I just had a burst of pleasurable nostalgia, followed by the sting of feeling old. ;)
  - dhughes 13y ago
    And also. http://paper.textfiles.com/ http://paper.textfiles.com/
- egypturnash 13y ago
  I guess you never saw Transactor then? That was the good stuff. Hardware hacks, lengthy assembly source listings, it was hardcore. There's an archive of scans of every issue here: http://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/ http://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/
dugmartin 13y ago
For me it was Micro Cornucopia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia
donretag 13y ago
Dr. Dobb's Journal was another great magazine. I still enjoy printed material. I subscribe to 3 magazines (which rotate since I do not have time for more) and purchase my non-techie books solely in print.
- vidarh 13y ago
  It was fantastic up until the end of the 90's, but DDJ steadily got more and more bland after that. There are still specific issues and articles I remember very well, like their article on ternary trees, and various issues on programming languages.
- huherto 13y ago
  For me it was Byte, DDJ, and Computer Language.
  - discreteevent 13y ago
    I was reared on DDJ and Byte. At one point there was always at least one gem in each issue of both of them.
bhauer 13y ago
Byte was amazing. In the mid-80s I was into the Atari ST platform, and I probably have in storage their "home computing" issue that had an awesome top-down view of the ST [1]. [1] http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE_11-03_Homebound_Computing#page/n0/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE...
walshemj 13y ago
Testify brother any one else notice the shoutout in toy story one to BYTE? Always wished I had the nerve to get our electronics shop at BHRA to build the modems costing $35 for one project instead of paying £300 for a five answer modems and £600 for an answer originate - highly naughty at the time as you could only connect approved devices to the BT network - as it was we had them taken apart and some components changed to tweak the gain.
- rbanffy 13y ago
  > any one else notice the shoutout in toy story one to BYTE? No. Where is that?
  - walshemj 13y ago
    early in the film there is a shot that pans across a book shelf the titles of which are early experimental films done in CGI at least one of which was used as a cover for BYTE. I cant recall the name unfortunately
rbanffy 13y ago
BYTE was special, but I also miss Creative Computing.

tjr 13y ago

I didn't discover Byte until the 1990s, in college. I often sat in the library reading back issues. When I finally subscribed to the magazine myself, I only received a few months' worth before they folded up shop! Great memories nevertheless.

rwmj 13y ago
The closure of Byte magazine is a rather sorry tale: http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html
rbanffy 13y ago
> I often sat in the library reading back issues Luckily, my college had a very complete collection of BYTE, dating back to their second or third year. I am quite sure I read everything they had.

protomyth 13y ago

I miss Creative Computing, too. It was the philosophy to Byte's technical vision.

ghshephard 13y ago

Byte was one of the clear contenders for the best (if not the best) general computer magazine - but as an avid commodore 64 hacker back in 1982-1983, Compute!, with it's monthly updates on various things like undocumented 6510 opcodes, and their interesting assembly programs that we typed in by hand (mostly consisting of a bunch of data/poke statements, will always hold a warm place in my heart.

kenjackson 13y ago
Compute was awesome. Probably the only magazine that actually made me a better programmer.
andyidsinga 13y ago
compute was awesome ..and where i got my start programming
vidarh 13y ago
Take a look here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/
nostromo 13y ago
You're in luck: http://archive.org/details/compute-magazine http://archive.org/details/compute-magazine I just had a burst of pleasurable nostalgia, followed by the sting of feeling old. ;)
- dhughes 13y ago
  And also. http://paper.textfiles.com/ http://paper.textfiles.com/
egypturnash 13y ago
I guess you never saw Transactor then? That was the good stuff. Hardware hacks, lengthy assembly source listings, it was hardcore. There's an archive of scans of every issue here: http://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/ http://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/

dugmartin 13y ago

For me it was Micro Cornucopia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia

donretag 13y ago

Dr. Dobb's Journal was another great magazine. I still enjoy printed material. I subscribe to 3 magazines (which rotate since I do not have time for more) and purchase my non-techie books solely in print.

vidarh 13y ago
It was fantastic up until the end of the 90's, but DDJ steadily got more and more bland after that. There are still specific issues and articles I remember very well, like their article on ternary trees, and various issues on programming languages.
huherto 13y ago
For me it was Byte, DDJ, and Computer Language.
- discreteevent 13y ago
  I was reared on DDJ and Byte. At one point there was always at least one gem in each issue of both of them.

bhauer 13y ago

Byte was amazing. In the mid-80s I was into the Atari ST platform, and I probably have in storage their "home computing" issue that had an awesome top-down view of the ST [1]. [1] http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE_11-03_Homebound_Computing#page/n0/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE...

walshemj 13y ago

Testify brother any one else notice the shoutout in toy story one to BYTE? Always wished I had the nerve to get our electronics shop at BHRA to build the modems costing $35 for one project instead of paying £300 for a five answer modems and £600 for an answer originate - highly naughty at the time as you could only connect approved devices to the BT network - as it was we had them taken apart and some components changed to tweak the gain.

rbanffy 13y ago
> any one else notice the shoutout in toy story one to BYTE? No. Where is that?
- walshemj 13y ago
  early in the film there is a shot that pans across a book shelf the titles of which are early experimental films done in CGI at least one of which was used as a cover for BYTE. I cant recall the name unfortunately

rbanffy 13y ago

BYTE was special, but I also miss Creative Computing.