BYTE archive

There have been a few threads in the last couple of days that were all about early home computers. So here’s this. I have always been in love with the December 1980 issue.

Cool! Is that the whole run?

Of BYTE? Assuredly not. I had a subscription to BYTE in the mid-90s and loved it. It was a sorry day when they closed down; I can still recall the ads for the Pentium-66, and the many excellent articles I read and re-read without ever really knowing or touching any of the technology they were talking about.

People with slow Internet connections should note that each issue is a PDF file 100 to 400 megabytes in size: they will take a long time to download.

I follow Jerry Pournelle’s blog. He mentioned the other day that there are plans to restart Byte as a web magazine.

excuse, you wrote that you had a subscription in the 90th years. I can’t find number for April, 1991 in any way. you couldn’t help me?

I’m afraid I can’t… all my back issues of Byte are at home in India, several thousand miles away from me at the moment. I’m not sure if I have that particular issue, and even if I did, I think there’s a good chance the entire set got lost during a house move several years ago. I haven’t looked for them since that move, but I’m also missing a lot of related books that I thought I had, so I suspect they are gone. Sorry about that!

It is a pity to me. Thank you that paid me attention.

April 1991 was volume 16, issue #4. Hope that helps.

Full PDFs are a drag. I wish more publishers would allow Google Books to archive their back issues. It’s not as if they are making money from the back issues other than by re-licensing old content, and having the content available for searching makes it dramatically more likely that other publishers will license it.