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Wow.
This BYTE Magazine visual archive is amazing!
It’s every single page, from the cover of the first issue to the back page of the last, fully zoomable and readable.
Oh and fully searchable too!
Stunning.
I still remember the January 1982 issue that a friend had, it was announcing the new IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER…
I bought a physical copy of this Byte Magazine about OOP https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-08
and now I even more appreciate #ruby design choices. They're spot on
#ruby #programming #oop #objectorientedprogramming #ByteMagazine
Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22
Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
#HackerNews #ByteMagazine #Archive1975 #TechHistory #DigitalPreservation #ComputingLegends
Inspired by a now deleted post, i have recreated some classic headlines from BYTE magazine's first few issues. The originals use Lydian, my recreations use Andily https://drj11.itch.io/andily-font (my own copy of Lydian).
First the classic "What this country needs is a good 8-Bit High Level Language".
1/3
Edsger #Dijkstra, a classic software engineer who visited the U.S.S.R in the late 1970s, said in a public speech defivered in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad that he regarded the fact that the U.S.S.R. produced #IBM computers as the biggest U.S. victory in the #ColdWar. (i a) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1991
Both Willow and #USVideo advertise their products as if reasonably knowledgeable people who aren't computer experts can use them. We make no doubt at all that this is true, but it's not simple. It’s going to take time. As Roberta says, before you can #genlock, you have to understand what genlocking is all about; and you only think you know that.
First came the# Willow manual: she reports that in 12 pages of text, there was not one single sentence that she understood, Part of it is the terminology, but some of it is the English: she’s not at all sure some of the sentences actually say what Willow thinks they say. The USVideo manual wasn’t a lot better. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
But I'll break this off at Koko’s behest. #Koko (born 1971, with a potential span of more than 50 years) is the world’s most studied gorilla, and bids fair to be its most pampered Mac user.
She has an American Sign Language vocabulary of over 600 words. The pet of the #GorillaFoundation, she uses “a standard #MacII enclosed in a special gorilla-proof housing,” constructed of ½-inch polycarbonate for bolting to the floor of her trailer.
Apple's #Vivarium Program has even designed a customized inch-thick touchscreen “to withstand, the 2,000 pounds of force an excited gorilla can potentially generate.”
The problem, you see, is that angry or excited gorillas tend to “run full speed and backhand the object of anger,” and Koko's arm-swing is comparable to “a 10-pound shotput traveling at 100 miles per hour.” No wonder Project Koko helped the team to “a better understanding of human-computer interfaces.”
Some users do get _mad_. (h k) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
The standard #IBM operating system #MVS (for Multiple Virtual Storage), was cranky and primitive. While you could run it from a terminal, a lengthy session with MVS might leave _you_ feeling like a punched card. (t y) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
However, this study has also revealed how difficult it still is, even with state-of-the-art object-oriented technologies, to design and build components that are both useful and genuinely reusable, to, document their interfaces so that consumers can understand them, to, port them to an unceasing torrent of new hardware platforms, to ensure that recent enhancements or ports haven't violated some preexisting interface, and to market them to a culture whose value system, like that of the colonial gunsmith, encourages building everything from first principles to avoid, relying on somebody else's work. (b j c) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
The bad news is that some of DR DOS 5.0 is written in C; and the primary programming is being done in England. I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location. (j p) #DigitalResearch #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
As early as 1946, #ArthurKoestler said that the sufficient condition for the destruction of totalitarian Communism would be the free exchange of ideas in the Soviet Empire. Distributed computing power automatically brings the free exchange of ideas. The small computer is the ultimate in samizdat (self-publishing) capability. It is literally impossible to prevent people with small computers from communicating with each other, nor is it possible to censor what kinds of informatiion they exchange. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
Incidentally, their high profits were disclosed when one of the partners loyally paid his Party dues from his earnings, writing a check for 92,000 rubles to an institution that paid him 130 rubles a month... (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990 #Moscow
Repórter Retro 119
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/10/22/reporter-retro-119/
#ReprterRetro #8BitGuy #AcessoRemoto #AdrianBlack #AMD #AppleII #Arcade #Archie #ArsTechnica #AtariPortfolio #AtariSt #Brasil #ByteMagazine #Commodore128 #CP400 #CP500 #Cyberdeck #DartmouthCollege #DEC #DiegoRetroGames #Embratel #epcom #expert #ExplainingComputers #FeiraInternacionalDeInformtica #fliperama #FranklinAce #gradiente #Hackaday #Homebrew #hotbit #IBM #IBM5100Portable #internet #Laptop #Linux #MesopGames
Until the problem is attacked at that level, international users will be forced to make do with ad hoc solutions. Not that we need more standards; the existence of YAT (Yet Another Standard) would only make the problem worse. We just need to change our mindset from "I can do it better" to "We can do it together." (b s) #Internationalization #Unicode #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
The first attempts to solve this problem have involved huge, specially designed keyboards with hundreds of keys. Some early designs came from Multitech, a multinational high-tech company headquartered in West-Germany. In 1987, Multitech changed its name to Acer and moved its headquarters to Taipei, Taiwan. Suddenly, finding ways to make Chinese computing easier became a necessity! (b s) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990 #Acer
Verzögerungsleitung, mal ganz ohne Quecksilber. #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1990
And once you've centered your attention on that Multiplan Life game, lo, "spreadsheet" has receded to the status of metaphor. You next realize that in buying Multiplan software, you acquired a way to think about manipulating symbols in space, never mind what its designers thought it was "for". (h k) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
The OED contains close to 540 megabytes of text and tagging information. (e g) #Byte #ByteMagazine #OxfordEnglishDictionary #Anno1989
Somebody built a searchable and browsable BYTE magazine archive with all single pages on one single web page. I think, this is a very nice way of visualising a magazine archive. Enjoy: https://byte.tsundoku.io
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #bytemagazine #byte
When we were younger, “That's what the computer says” was a darned near unanswerable argument. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
This is cool: a zoomable visual archive of the entire run of Byte Magazine: https://byte.tsundoku.io/
Via https://www.techspot.com/news/109222-zoomable-visual-archive-byte-magazine-delightful-trip-down.html
Now please, someone, do this for Micro Cornucopia and Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia.
A visual and textual browser/search for BYTE magazine. Clever way to present this vast amount of printed material!
A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#HackerNews #BYTEarchive #BYTEmagazine #techhistory #digitalarchive #zoomablesearch
It is not an easy task to make the #80286 perform multitasking or mode switching. [..] Jerry Pournelle describes the process this way: "You have to clunk it over the head and knock it out When it's waking up -- but before it realize it's been reset -- you shout: 'Stop! Stop! Don't reset! It's all a terrible dream.'" (f h) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
David "Daff" Brunet a mis en ligne sur Obligement la dixième et dernière salve d'articles issus du magazine Byte traduits en français, d'avril 1992 à janvier 1993.
Parmi lesquels un point de vue sur l'Amiga 3000T et une série sur les présentations vidéo.
Neuvième salve d'articles sur Obligement issus du magazine Byte et traduits en français, de septembre 1990 à juin 1991.
Avec notamment un test du Video Toaster et un article sur Exec, le noyau de l'Amiga.
(source : @obligement sur X)
Teaching Computers to Read — Sort Of https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/teaching-computers-to-read-sort-of/ #Retrocomputing #bytemagazine #barcode #cauzin
It is interesting to speculate about the future of microcomputer-based
automatic #astronomy. Since an experienced engineer can keep many automatic #telescope|s operating. it seems likely that a number of such systems owned by various institutions will be placed at a single top site where clouds are a rarity. A list of objects to be observed will be sent via phone or disk by an astronomer: after all the requested #observations are made automatically; the results will be sent back to the requesting astronomer in a similar fashion. (r m g) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1985
It remains overpriced and difficult to expand, magnificent in conception, but flawed in execution. It blazed a trail that others are eager to follow. Loyalty to #Apple can be costly; you'll have to decide for yourself if it's worth it. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Macintosh #Anno1985
Impulse eBay purchase of the month 😁
#retrocomputing #bytemagazine #startrek #ibm
If you peer into a microscope at a certain #VLSI microprocessor designed and fabricated recently by faculty and graduate students at the #UniversityOfCalifornia at #Berkeley, you will see something quite startling. There, inscribed in tiny detail next to the initials of the microprocessor designers, is a #Porsche racing car. (j m) #RISC #RiscII #Sun #Sparc #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1984
Okay. *computer crimed*
Thirty years ago today, #Commodore International declared bankruptcy. Not the #Commodore64, not the #Amiga, and certainly not the #CD32 could save them.
Full text of attached #ByteMagazine article image courtesy of its author: https://Halfhill.com/byte/1994-8_commodore.html
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Your 1983 Video Phone is Finally Ready - If you read Byte magazine in 1983, you might have expected that, by now, you’d be ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/your-1983-video-phone-is-finally-ready/ #3dprinterhacks #bytemagazine #phonehacks #videophone #android #art
Remembering when #ByteMagazine carried water for #Microsoft's 1990s FUD: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-09
These days the #FreeBSD-derived #Darwin powering #Apple's operating systems has about the same installed base as #Windows. Adding the de facto Unix #Linux and derivatives like #Android easily eclipses Microsoft's efforts several times over.
Me trying to arrange meetups with all the people I know in London is really showing off the absolute shitshow of modern messaging. In the 1990s, Byte magazine used to have articles about the universal inbox and boy I hope someone implements that one day. (At the time, they were referring to unifying all three of your incoming fax, voicemail and email into one place)
#Enshittification #UniversalInbox #Telefacsimile #ByteMagazine #London
An Interview: The Macintosh Design Team - The making of Macintosh
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-02/page/n59/mode/1up?view=theater
#apple #mac #macintosh #computers #design #designhistory #history #interview #bytemagazine #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
😍:
“Byte Magazine 1975-1995”, World Radio History (https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397245
#Byte #ByteMagazine #Magazine #Archive #ComputerHistory #Scans #PDF
Same here. BASIC programs were the only info I ever had on biorhythms. Never realised that there was a cult-like craze surrounding it and until decades later
See page 20 of Byte Magazine
(April 1976), "Biorhythms for Computers" by Joy and Richard Fox
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1976-04/page/n21/mode/1up
#biorhythms #retroComputing #retro #ByteMagazine #history #BasicProgramming
