# BYTE archive **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394 "2011-04-06T14:35:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/1 "2011-04-06T14:35:05Z")
There have been a few threads in the last couple of days that were all about early home computers. So here’s [this](http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/byte/pdf/). I have always been in love with the December 1980 issue. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/2 "2011-04-06T18:55:55Z")
Cool! Is that the whole run? ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/3 "2011-04-06T21:34:07Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/4 "2011-04-06T21:49:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/5 "2011-04-07T07:34:38Z")
I follow Jerry Pournelle’s blog. He mentioned the other day that there are plans to restart Byte as a web magazine. ---
**Author:** ![luser-user](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@luser-user](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luser-user)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/6 "2013-01-15T09:41:34Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > 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. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/7 "2013-01-15T13:54:09Z")
> [@luser-user](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![luser-user](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@luser-user](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luser-user)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/8 "2013-01-15T15:46:42Z")
It is a pity to me. Thank you that paid me attention. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/9 "2013-01-15T17:57:39Z")
> [@luser-user](#): > > 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? April 1991 was volume 16, issue #4. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/byte-archive/577394/10 "2013-01-17T00:49:00Z")
Full PDFs are a drag. I wish more publishers would allow [Google Books to archive their back issues.](http://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en?sa=N&start=0) 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.