203 
Byte Magazine

Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user's perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing. Coverage was in-depth with much technical detail, rather than user-oriented.

Byte started in 1975, shortly after the first personal computers appeared as kits advertised in the back of electronics magazines. Byte was published monthly, with an initial yearly subscription price of $10. Byte was able to attract advertising and articles from many well-knowns, soon-to-be-well-knowns, and ultimately-to-be-forgottens in the growing microcomputer hobby. Articles in the first issue (September, 1975) included Which Microprocessor For You? by Hal Chamberlin, Write Your Own Assembler by Dan Fylstra and Serial Interface by Don Lancaster. Advertisements from Godbout, MITS, Processor Technology, SCELBI, and Sphere appear, among others. Early articles in Byte were do-it-yourself electronic or software projects to improve small computers. A continuing feature was Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, a column in which electronic engineer Steve Ciarcia described small projects to modify or attach to a computer (later spun off to become the magazine Circuit Cellar, focusing on embedded computer applications). Significant articles in this period included the "Kansas City" standard for data storage on audio tape, insertion of disk drives into S-100 computers, publication of source code for various computer languages (Tiny C, BASIC, assemblers), and breathless coverage of the first microcomputer operating system, CP/M. Byte ran Microsoft's first advertisement, as "Micro-Soft", to sell a BASIC interpreter for 8080-based computers.

Around 1985 Byte started an online service called BIX (Byte Information eXchange) which was a text-only BBS style site running on the CoSy conferencing software, also used by McGraw-Hill internally. Access was via local dial-in or, for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were $13/month for the account and $1/hour for X.25 access. Unlike CompuServe, access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Many of the Byte staff were active on the service. Later, gateways permitted email communication outside the system.

BYTEMAG088
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1975)

The Worlds Greatest Toy

BYTEMAG146
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1975)

Build a Graphics Display

BYTEMAG084
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1975)

Is This Next

BYTEMAG087
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1975)

Assembling an Altair

BYTEMAG085
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1976)

Build a Light Pen

BYTEMAG040
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1976)

Color Graphics

BYTEMAG121
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1976)

Cassette Interfaces

BYTEMAG122
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1976)

Automation

BYTEMAG063
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1976)

Shooting Stars

BYTEMAG089
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1976)

The Game of LIFE in Color

BYTEMAG086
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1976)

Core Memories

BYTEMAG171
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1976)

Speech Synthesis

BYTEMAG009
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 1976

Bicentennial

BYTEMAG107
Byte Magazine
Issue #14 1976

Ham Radio

BYTEMAG151
Byte Magazine
Issue #15 1976

More Fun than Crayons

BYTEMAG048
Byte Magazine
Issue #16 1976

Machine Readable Print

BYTEMAG208
Byte Magazine

The Best of Byte Vol 1

BYTEMAG176
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1977)

Hash Tables and Interrupts

BYTEMAG175
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1977)

Usable Systems

BYTEMAG049
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1977)

Inexpensive Joystick Interfaces

BYTEMAG041
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1977)

Baudot Machines

BYTEMAG239
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1977)

Interfacing

BYTEMAG238
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1977)

Cognitive Robot

BYTEMAG174
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1977)

Model Railroads

BYTEMAG065
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1977)

Working with APL

BYTEMAG124
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1977)

Music and Computers

BYTEMAG111
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1977)

Implementing Space War

BYTEMAG230
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1977)

Memory Mapped IO

BYTEMAG064
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1977)

The Star Trek Computers

BYTEMAG093
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1978)

The Brains of Men and Machines

BYTEMAG152
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1978)

Hardware Projects

BYTEMAG092
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1978)

Computer Music Systems

BYTEMAG113
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1978)

Optimization

BYTEMAG177
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1978)

Graphics in Depth

BYTEMAG013
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1978)

Natural Language

BYTEMAG050
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1978)

How To Get Your Tarbell Going

BYTEMAG015
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1978)

Pascal

BYTEMAG178
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1978)

Graphic Manipulations

BYTEMAG123
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1978)

Chess for the Microcomputer

BYTEMAG011
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1978)

The Sky is the Limit

BYTEMAG237
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1978)

Life

BYTEMAG012
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1979)

Life Algorithms

BYTEMAG236
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1979)

Robot Arm

BYTEMAG014
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1979)

Plain Text

BYTEMAG179
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1979)

Low Level Programming

BYTEMAG148
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1979)

Computer Generated Maps

BYTEMAG010
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1979)

Artificial Intelligence

BYTEMAG060
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1979)

Automating Eclipses

BYTEMAG112
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1979)

LISP

BYTEMAG091
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1979)

Homebrewing

BYTEMAG173
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1979)

Genealogy

BYTEMAG047
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1979)

Fun and Games

BYTEMAG150
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1979)

Numerical Analysis

BYTEMAG155
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1980)

Domesticated Computers

BYTEMAG244
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1980)

Graph Theory

BYTEMAG183
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1980)

Computers in the Labratory

BYTEMAG071
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1980)

Printed Software Becomes a Reality

BYTEMAG072
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1980)

Floppy Disks

BYTEMAG021
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1980)

Inter Computer Communications

BYTEMAG156
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1980)

Computers and Education

BYTEMAG157
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1980)

The Forth Language

BYTEMAG245
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1980)

Homebrewing

BYTEMAG019
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1980)

Software

BYTEMAG204
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1980)

OCR

BYTEMAG018
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1980)

High-Resolution Graphics

BYTEMAG153
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1980)

Adventure

BYTEMAG067
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1981)

Hand-held Computers

BYTEMAG125
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1981)

The Computer and Voice Synthesis

BYTEMAG108
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1981)

Programming Methods

BYTEMAG042
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1981)

Future Computers

BYTEMAG227
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1981)

Software Piracy

BYTEMAG154
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1981)

Operating Systems

BYTEMAG241
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1981)

Energy Conservation

BYTEMAG181
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1981)

Smalltalk

BYTEMAG017
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1981)

Artificial Intelligence

BYTEMAG043
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1981)

Local Networks

BYTEMAG044
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1981)

Data Base Management Systems

BYTEMAG069
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1981)

Computer Games

BYTEMAG046
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1982)

The IBM Personal Computer

BYTEMAG127
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1982)

Winter Computing

BYTEMAG045
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1982)

Printers

BYTEMAG215
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1982)

Human Factors Engineering

BYTEMAG226
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1982)

Japanese Computers

BYTEMAG242
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1982)

Interactive Videodiscs

BYTEMAG020
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1982)

Computers in the Arts and Sciences

BYTEMAG182
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1982)

Logo

BYTEMAG070
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1982)

Computers and the Disabled

BYTEMAG217
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1982)

Computers in Business

BYTEMAG273
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1982)

Graphics

BYTEMAG180
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1982)

Game Plan 1982

BYTEMAG094
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1983)

Looking Ahead

BYTEMAG016
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1983)

Standards

BYTEMAG066
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1983)

Mass Storage

BYTEMAG095
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1983)

New Chips

BYTEMAG184
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1983)

The Electronic Office

BYTEMAG051
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1983)

16-Bit Designs

BYTEMAG246
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1983)

Videotex

BYTEMAG185
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1983)

The C Language

BYTEMAG052
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1983)

Portable Computers in Depth

BYTEMAG096
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1983)

UNIX

BYTEMAG188
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1983)

Inside the IBM PC

BYTEMAG187
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1983)

Easy Software

BYTEMAG234
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1984)

1984 and Beyond - Future Trends

BYTEMAG025
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1984)

Benchmarks

BYTEMAG189
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1984)

Simulation

BYTEMAG159
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1984)

Real-World Interfacing

BYTEMAG252
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1984)

Computers and the Professions

BYTEMAG053
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1984)

Computers and Education

BYTEMAG024
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1984)

Computers and Video

BYTEMAG131
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1984)

Modula-2

BYTEMAG158
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1984)

Guide to the IBM PCs

BYTEMAG004
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1984)

Computer Graphics

BYTEMAG248
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1984)

Databases

BYTEMAG247
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1984)

New Chips

BYTEMAG129
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1984)

Communications

BYTEMAG007
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1985)

Through The Hourglass

BYTEMAG022
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1985)

Computing and the Sciences

BYTEMAG073
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1985)

Bargain Computing

BYTEMAG251
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1985)

Artificial Intelligence

BYTEMAG130
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1985)

Multiprocessing

BYTEMAG250
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1985)

Programming Techniques

BYTEMAG249
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1985)

Computers and Space

BYTEMAG023
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1985)

Declarative Languages

BYTEMAG213
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1985)

The Amiga

BYTEMAG186
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1985)

Homebrewing

BYTEMAG254
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1985)

Simulating Society

BYTEMAG190
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1985)

Inside the IBM PCs

BYTEMAG132
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1985)

Computer Conferencing

BYTEMAG161
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1986)

Robotics

BYTEMAG160
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1986)

Text Processing

BYTEMAG192
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1986)

Homebound Computing

BYTEMAG098
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1986)

Number Crunching

BYTEMAG099
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1986)

Mass Storage

BYTEMAG097
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1986)

Computers and Music

BYTEMAG162
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1986)

Engineer's Toolbox

BYTEMAG027
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1986)

Object-Oriented Languages

BYTEMAG054
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1986)

The 68000 Family

BYTEMAG212
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1986)

Apple II GS

BYTEMAG030
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1986)

Public Domain Powerhouses

BYTEMAG228
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1986)

Inside The IBM PC

BYTEMAG102
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1986)

Knowledge Representation

BYTEMAG195
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1986)

Graphics Algorithms

BYTEMAG077
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1987)

Programmable Hardware

BYTEMAG029
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1987)

Image Processing

BYTEMAG166
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1987)

Educational Computing

BYTEMAG076
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1987)

Instruction Set Strategies

BYTEMAG075
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1987)

Desktop Publishing and Internal Modems

BYTEMAG258
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1987)

CAD Mice 12-MHz ATs IBM PS2 Family

BYTEMAG257
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1987)

LANs IBM PS2 Models 30 50 60 CAD Software

BYTEMAG165
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1987)

Prolog and 386 Hardware Software

BYTEMAG055
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1987)

Printer Technologies and 80386 System Software

BYTEMAG135
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1987)

AT Memory Boards and Naturla Language Processing

BYTEMAG197
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1987)

Accelorator Boards and Workstations

BYTEMAG261
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1988)
BYTEMAG120
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1988)

Memory Management and 24-Pin Printers

BYTEMAG259
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1988)
BYTEMAG196
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1988)
BYTEMAG263
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1988)

Multitasking and Fast 40 Megabyte Hard Disks

BYTEMAG193
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1988)
BYTEMAG164
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1988)
BYTEMAG191
Byte Magazine
Issue #10 (Oct 1988)
BYTEMAG214
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1988)
BYTEMAG256
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1989)

PC Communications and Annual Awards and Digitizing Tablets

BYTEMAG229
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1989)

Personal Workstation Mac SE

BYTEMAG100
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1989)

Mac Supplement 286 vs 386sx Object Oriented Programming

BYTEMAG101
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1989)

CASE and UPSes and Graphics Suppliment

BYTEMAG134
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1989)

Unix CAD and Technology Breakthroughs

BYTEMAG163
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1989)

Small Wonders

BYTEMAG272
Byte Magazine
Issue #11 (Nov 1989)

'EISA' Arrives

BYTEMAG262
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1989)

5 New Laptops and Sound Image Processing and Case Tools

BYTEMAG118
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1990)

Windows 3.0

BYTEMAG194
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1990)

15th Anniversary Summit

BYTEMAG008
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1990)

Compaq Dazzling New Laptop

BYTEMAG026
Byte Magazine
Issue #13 (Xmas 1990)

State of the Art Advanced Graphics

BYTEMAG074
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1991)

1990 BYTE Award of Excellence

BYTEMAG255
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1991)

Laptop Technologies

BYTEMAG133
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1991)

Network Management

BYTEMAG078
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1992)

Developing Applications Across Platforms

BYTEMAG260
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1992)

Tomorrows Chips

BYTEMAG031
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1992)

Memory and Storage Advances

BYTEMAG167
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1992)

An Interface For All Senses

BYTEMAG201
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1992)

3 Number D :The Next Generation of Graphics

BYTEMAG104
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1992)

A New World of Displays and Image Number Processing Software

BYTEMAG202
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1992)

Real Number Ti:me Computing

BYTEMAG079
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1992)

Photonics

BYTEMAG222
Byte Magazine

The Essential Guide to Windows

BYTEMAG005
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1993)
BYTEMAG231
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1993)
BYTEMAG221
Byte Magazine
Issue #3 (Mar 1993)
BYTEMAG224
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1993)
BYTEMAG061
Byte Magazine
Issue #5 (May 1993)
BYTEMAG198
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1993)
BYTEMAG006
Byte Magazine
Issue #7 (Jul 1993)

Pentium PCs

BYTEMAG103
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1993)

Advanced Graphics

BYTEMAG218
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1994)
BYTEMAG265
Byte Magazine
Issue #9 (Sep 1995)

20 Years

BYTEMAG002
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1995)
BYTEMAG115
Byte Magazine
Issue #12 (Dec 1996)
BYTEMAG225
Byte Magazine
Issue #1 (Jan 1997)
BYTEMAG232
Byte Magazine
Issue #2 (Feb 1997)
BYTEMAG211
Byte Magazine
Issue #4 (Apr 1997)
BYTEMAG114
Byte Magazine
Issue #6 (Jun 1997)
BYTEMAG116
Byte Magazine
Issue #8 (Aug 1997)