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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.

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #12, Dec 1995

Byte Magazine
The Sky is the Limit

Issue #11, Nov 1978

Byte Magazine
Through The Hourglass

Issue #1, Jan 1985

Byte Magazine
Compaq Dazzling New Laptop

Issue #12, Dec 1990

Byte Magazine
Plain Text

Issue #3, Mar 1979

Byte Magazine
Life Algorithms

Issue #1, Jan 1979

Byte Magazine
Bicentennial

Issue #13 1976

Byte Magazine
Artificial Intelligence

Issue #6, Jun 1979

Byte Magazine

Issue #1, Jan 1993

Byte Magazine
Pentium PCs

Issue #7, Jul 1993

Byte Magazine
Pascal

Issue #8, Aug 1978

Byte Magazine
Natural Language

Issue #6, Jun 1978

Byte Magazine
Computer Graphics

Issue #10, Oct 1984

Byte Magazine
Standards

Issue #2, Feb 1983

Byte Magazine
Artificial Intelligence

Issue #9, Sep 1981

Byte Magazine
High-Resolution Graphics

Issue #11, Nov 1980

Byte Magazine
Software

Issue #10, Oct 1980

Byte Magazine
Computers in the Arts and Sciences

Issue #7, Jul 1982

Byte Magazine
Inter Computer Communications

Issue #6, Jun 1980

Byte Magazine
Computing and the Sciences

Issue #2, Feb 1985

Byte Magazine
Declarative Languages

Issue #8, Aug 1985

Byte Magazine
Computers and Video

Issue #7, Jul 1984

Byte Magazine
Benchmarks

Issue #2, Feb 1984

Byte Magazine
State of the Art Advanced Graphics

Issue #13, Xmas 1990

Byte Magazine
Object-Oriented Languages

Issue #8, Aug 1986

Byte Magazine
Image Processing

Issue #2, Feb 1987

Byte Magazine
Public Domain Powerhouses

Issue #10, Oct 1986

Byte Magazine
Memory and Storage Advances

Issue #3, Mar 1992

Byte Magazine
Color Graphics

Issue #6, Jun 1976

Byte Magazine
Baudot Machines

Issue #4, Apr 1977

Byte Magazine
Future Computers

Issue #4, Apr 1981

Byte Magazine
Local Networks

Issue #10, Oct 1981

Byte Magazine
Data Base Management Systems

Issue #11, Nov 1981

Byte Magazine
Printers

Issue #3, Mar 1982

Byte Magazine
The IBM Personal Computer

Issue #1, Jan 1982

Byte Magazine
Fun and Games

Issue #11, Nov 1979

Byte Magazine
Machine Readable Print

Issue #16 1976

Byte Magazine
Inexpensive Joystick Interfaces

Issue #3, Mar 1977

Byte Magazine
How To Get Your Tarbell Going

Issue #7, Jul 1978

Byte Magazine
16-Bit Designs

Issue #6, Jun 1983

Byte Magazine
Portable Computers in Depth

Issue #9, Sep 1983

Byte Magazine
Computers and Education

Issue #6, Jun 1984

Byte Magazine
The 68000 Family

Issue #9, Sep 1986

Byte Magazine
Printer Technologies and 80386 System Software

Issue #10, Oct 1987

Byte Magazine
Automating Eclipses

Issue #7, Jul 1979

Byte Magazine

Issue #5, May 1993

Byte Magazine
Shooting Stars

Issue #9, Sep 1976

Byte Magazine
The Star Trek Computers

Issue #12, Dec 1977

Byte Magazine
Working with APL

Issue #8, Aug 1977

Byte Magazine
Mass Storage

Issue #3, Mar 1983

Byte Magazine
Hand-held Computers

Issue #1, Jan 1981

Byte Magazine
Computer Games

Issue #12, Dec 1981

Byte Magazine
Computers and the Disabled

Issue #9, Sep 1982

Byte Magazine
Printed Software Becomes a Reality

Issue #4, Apr 1980

Byte Magazine
Floppy Disks

Issue #5, May 1980

Byte Magazine
Bargain Computing

Issue #3, Mar 1985

Byte Magazine
1990 BYTE Award of Excellence

Issue #1, Jan 1991

Byte Magazine
Desktop Publishing and Internal Modems

Issue #5, May 1987

Byte Magazine
Instruction Set Strategies

Issue #4, Apr 1987

Byte Magazine
Programmable Hardware

Issue #1, Jan 1987

Byte Magazine
Developing Applications Across Platforms

Issue #1, Jan 1992

Byte Magazine
Photonics

Issue #9, Sep 1992

Byte Magazine
Is This Next

Issue #3, Mar 1975

Byte Magazine
Build a Light Pen

Issue #5, May 1976

Byte Magazine
Core Memories

Issue #11, Nov 1976

Byte Magazine
Assembling an Altair

Issue #4, Apr 1975

Byte Magazine
The Worlds Greatest Toy

Issue #1, Jan 1975

Byte Magazine
The Game of LIFE in Color

Issue #10, Oct 1976

Byte Magazine
Homebrewing

Issue #9, Sep 1979

Byte Magazine
Computer Music Systems

Issue #3, Mar 1978

Byte Magazine
The Brains of Men and Machines

Issue #1, Jan 1978

Byte Magazine
Looking Ahead

Issue #1, Jan 1983

Byte Magazine
New Chips

Issue #4, Apr 1983

Byte Magazine
UNIX

Issue #10, Oct 1983

Byte Magazine
Computers and Music

Issue #6, Jun 1986

Byte Magazine
Number Crunching

Issue #4, Apr 1986

Byte Magazine
Mass Storage

Issue #5, May 1986

Byte Magazine
Mac Supplement 286 vs 386sx Object Oriented Programming

Issue #3, Mar 1989

Byte Magazine
CASE and UPSes and Graphics Suppliment

Issue #4, Apr 1989

Byte Magazine
Knowledge Representation

Issue #12, Dec 1986

Byte Magazine
Advanced Graphics

Issue #12, Dec 1993

Byte Magazine
A New World of Displays and Image Number Processing Software

Issue #7, Jul 1992

Byte Magazine
Ham Radio

Issue #14 1976

Byte Magazine
Programming Methods

Issue #3, Mar 1981

Byte Magazine
Implementing Space War

Issue #10, Oct 1977

Byte Magazine
LISP

Issue #8, Aug 1979

Byte Magazine
Optimization

Issue #4, Apr 1978

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #6, Jun 1997

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #12, Dec 1996

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #8, Aug 1997

Byte Magazine
Windows 3.0

Issue #6, Jun 1990

Byte Magazine
Memory Management and 24-Pin Printers

Issue #4, Apr 1988

Byte Magazine
Cassette Interfaces

Issue #7, Jul 1976

Byte Magazine
Automation

Issue #8, Aug 1976

Byte Magazine
Chess for the Microcomputer

Issue #10, Oct 1978

Byte Magazine
Music and Computers

Issue #9, Sep 1977

Byte Magazine
The Computer and Voice Synthesis

Issue #2, Feb 1981

Byte Magazine
Winter Computing

Issue #2, Feb 1982

Byte Magazine
Communications

Issue #13, Xmas 1984

Byte Magazine
Multiprocessing

Issue #5, May 1985

Byte Magazine
Modula-2

Issue #8, Aug 1984

Byte Magazine
Computer Conferencing

Issue #13, Xmas 1985

Byte Magazine
Network Management

Issue #3, Mar 1991

Byte Magazine
Unix CAD and Technology Breakthroughs

Issue #5, May 1989

Byte Magazine
AT Memory Boards and Naturla Language Processing

Issue #12, Dec 1987

Byte Magazine
Build a Graphics Display

Issue #2, Feb 1975

Byte Magazine
Computer Generated Maps

Issue #5, May 1979

Byte Magazine
Numerical Analysis

Issue #12, Dec 1979

Byte Magazine
More Fun than Crayons

Issue #15 1976

Byte Magazine
Hardware Projects

Issue #2, Feb 1978

Byte Magazine
Adventure

Issue #12, Dec 1980

Byte Magazine
Operating Systems

Issue #6, Jun 1981

Byte Magazine
Domesticated Computers

Issue #1, Jan 1980

Byte Magazine
Computers and Education

Issue #7, Jul 1980

Byte Magazine
The Forth Language

Issue #8, Aug 1980

Byte Magazine
Guide to the IBM PCs

Issue #9, Sep 1984

Byte Magazine
Real-World Interfacing

Issue #4, Apr 1984

Byte Magazine
Text Processing

Issue #2, Feb 1986

Byte Magazine
Robotics

Issue #1, Jan 1986

Byte Magazine
Engineer's Toolbox

Issue #7, Jul 1986

Byte Magazine
Small Wonders

Issue #8, Aug 1989

Byte Magazine

Issue #9, Sep 1988

Byte Magazine
Prolog and 386 Hardware Software

Issue #9, Sep 1987

Byte Magazine
Educational Computing

Issue #3, Mar 1987

Byte Magazine
An Interface For All Senses

Issue #4, Apr 1992

Byte Magazine
Speech Synthesis

Issue #12, Dec 1976

Byte Magazine
Genealogy

Issue #10, Oct 1979

Byte Magazine
Model Railroads

Issue #7, Jul 1977

Byte Magazine
Usable Systems

Issue #2, Feb 1977

Byte Magazine
Hash Tables and Interrupts

Issue #1, Jan 1977

Byte Magazine
Graphics in Depth

Issue #5, May 1978

Byte Magazine
Graphic Manipulations

Issue #9, Sep 1978

Byte Magazine
Low Level Programming

Issue #4, Apr 1979

Byte Magazine
Game Plan 1982

Issue #12, Dec 1982

Byte Magazine
Smalltalk

Issue #8, Aug 1981

Byte Magazine
Logo

Issue #8, Aug 1982

Byte Magazine
Computers in the Labratory

Issue #3, Mar 1980

Byte Magazine
The Electronic Office

Issue #5, May 1983

Byte Magazine
The C Language

Issue #8, Aug 1983

Byte Magazine
Homebrewing

Issue #9, Sep 1985

Byte Magazine
Easy Software

Issue #12, Dec 1983

Byte Magazine
Inside the IBM PC

Issue #11, Nov 1983

Byte Magazine
Simulation

Issue #3, Mar 1984

Byte Magazine
Inside the IBM PCs

Issue #11, Nov 1985

Byte Magazine

Issue #10, Oct 1988

Byte Magazine
Homebound Computing

Issue #3, Mar 1986

Byte Magazine

Issue #8, Aug 1988

Byte Magazine
15th Anniversary Summit

Issue #9, Sep 1990

Byte Magazine
Graphics Algorithms

Issue #13, Xmas 1986

Byte Magazine

Issue #6, Jun 1988

Byte Magazine
Accelorator Boards and Workstations

Issue #13, Xmas 1987

Byte Magazine

Issue #6, Jun 1993

Byte Magazine
3 Number D :The Next Generation of Graphics

Issue #5, May 1992

Byte Magazine
Real Number Ti:me Computing

Issue #8, Aug 1992

Byte Magazine
OCR

Issue #11, Nov 1980

Byte Magazine
The Best of Byte Vol 1

1977

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #4, Apr 1997

Byte Magazine
Apple II GS

Issue #10, Oct 1986

Byte Magazine
The Amiga

Issue #8, Aug 1985

Byte Magazine

Issue #12, Dec 1988

Byte Magazine
Human Factors Engineering

Issue #4, Apr 1982

Byte Magazine
Computers in Business

Issue #10, Oct 1982

Byte Magazine

Issue #9, Sep 1994

Byte Magazine

Issue #3, Mar 1993

Byte Magazine
The Essential Guide to Windows

1993

Byte Magazine

Issue #4, Apr 1993

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #1, Jan 1997

Byte Magazine
Japanese Computers

Issue #5, May 1982

Byte Magazine
Software Piracy

Issue #5, May 1981

Byte Magazine
Inside The IBM PC

Issue #11, Nov 1986

Byte Magazine
Personal Workstation Mac SE
by McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Issue #2, Feb 1989

Byte Magazine
Memory Mapped IO

Issue #11, Nov 1977

Byte Magazine

Issue #2, Feb 1993

Byte Magazine
by Byte

Issue #2, Feb 1997

Byte Magazine
1984 and Beyond - Future Trends

Issue #1, Jan 1984

Byte Magazine
Robot Arm

Issue #2, Feb 1979

Byte Magazine
Life

Issue #12, Dec 1978

Byte Magazine
Cognitive Robot

Issue #6, Jun 1977

Byte Magazine
Interfacing

Issue #5, May 1977

Byte Magazine
Energy Conservation

Issue #7, Jul 1981

Byte Magazine
Interactive Videodiscs

Issue #6, Jun 1982

Byte Magazine
Graph Theory

Issue #2, Feb 1980

Byte Magazine
Homebrewing

Issue #9, Sep 1980

Byte Magazine
Videotex

Issue #7, Jul 1983

Byte Magazine
New Chips

Issue #12, Dec 1984

Byte Magazine
Databases

Issue #11, Nov 1984

Byte Magazine
Computers and Space

Issue #7, Jul 1985

Byte Magazine
Programming Techniques

Issue #6, Jun 1985

Byte Magazine
Artificial Intelligence

Issue #4, Apr 1985

Byte Magazine
Computers and the Professions

Issue #5, May 1984

Byte Magazine
Simulating Society

Issue #10, Oct 1985

Byte Magazine
Laptop Technologies

Issue #2, Feb 1991

Byte Magazine
PC Communications and Annual Awards and Digitizing Tablets

Issue #1, Jan 1989

Byte Magazine
LANs IBM PS2 Models 30 50 60 CAD Software

Issue #8, Aug 1987

Byte Magazine
CAD Mice 12-MHz ATs IBM PS2 Family

Issue #6, Jun 1987

Byte Magazine

Issue #5, May 1988

Byte Magazine
Tomorrows Chips

Issue #2, Feb 1992

Byte Magazine

Issue #3, Mar 1988

Byte Magazine
5 New Laptops and Sound Image Processing and Case Tools

Issue #13, Xmas 1989

Byte Magazine
Multitasking and Fast 40 Megabyte Hard Disks

Issue #7, Jul 1988

Byte Magazine
20 Years

Issue #9, Sep 1995

Byte Magazine
'EISA' Arrives
by Byte Magzine

Issue #11, Nov 1989

Byte Magazine
Graphics

Issue #11, Nov 1982