Back in the day Byte was a chunky affair packed full of goodness. I didn't mind the ads, they were part of the charm. I kept all my Byte magazines from when I

Back in the day Byte was a chunky affair packed full of goodness. I didn't mind the ads, they were part of the charm. I kept all my Byte magazines from when I started reading it in ~1982 until they stopped printing it in 1998. Sadly I was very short sighted and "recycled" them - but when you've moved house frequently, shifting 15 years worth of Byte's got a bit back breaking. I used to enjoy digging out older issues to read both the articles and review the ads with a sense of nostalgia.