ThumpNugget Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) Greetings people!As there seemed to be a lot of interest in getting BYTE scanned I thought I would at least give it a stab. BYTE is huge huge huge so I have no time-line. Instead I am focusing on just getting issues scanned and posted. My plan right now is to scan one issue per week and post it to this thread. This post (the start of the thread) will be updated as we go to show the current progress. Since these tend to be large (some of the magazines will run to nearly half a gig) and they are hosted on my site they probably will not be up for more than a few weeks for each magazine (note: so far all magazines listed are still available for download). The idea is that if I quit at some point along the way at least there is a good deal of work done for the next person.I do not plan on scanning these in order. I will mix-up the large/small magazines based on my bandwidth allotment left and time I have to scan on a given week.Below is the current list of BYTE magazines I have to scan and the date the scan was posted on the thread. If there is no posted date then I have not scanned or posted the magazine yet. If the magazine is not listed then I don't have it and I need it.A few people have graciously offered some bandwidth and provided mirrors for these magazines. All of the magazines that have been posted are available on these sites as well as in the downloads in the thread posts themselves. Many thanks to those donating bandwidth!http://files.exotica.org.uk/byte/ftp://helpedia.com/p...hive/temp/Byte/http://24.96.150.90/...byte/index.htmlhttp://24.96.150.75/...byte/index.htmlhttp://76.73.219.7/e...byte/index.html Issue Volume Num Date Pages Size Date Posted to Thread ------------ --- ------ ----- ---- ----------------------- Vol 00 No 1 01 Sep-75 100 62 Posted 2010-08-31 Vol 00 No 2 02 Oct-75 100 56 Posted 2010-08-31 Vol 00 No 3 03 Nov-75 100 60 Posted 2010-08-06 Vol 00 No 4 04 Dec-75 116 68 Posted 2010-10-31 Vol 00 No 5 05 Jan-76 100 58 Posted 2010-12-04 Vol 00 No 6 06 Feb-76 100 55 Posted 2010-12-23 Vol 00 No 7 07 Mar-76 100 56 Posted 2011-01-20 Vol 00 No 8 08 Apr-76 100 58 Posted 2010-01-29 Vol 00 No 9 09 May-76 100 58 Posted 2010-08-27 Vol 00 No 10 10 Jun-76 116 66 Posted 2010-09-15 Vol 00 No 11 11 Jul-76 116 69 Posted 2011-01-29 Vol 00 No 12 12 Aug-76 132 76 Posted 2010-12-24 Vol 00 No 13 13 Sep-76 132 77 Posted 2011-01-30 Vol 00 No 14 14 Oct-76 148 87 Posted 2011-01-31 Vol 00 No 15 15 Nov-76 148 86 Posted 2010-10-01 Vol 00 No 16 16 Dec-76 148 86 Posted 2010-10-14 Vol 02 No 1 17 Jan-77 148 91 Posted 2010-12-29 Vol 02 No 2 18 Feb-77 164 100 Posted 2011-01-31 Vol 02 No 4 20 Apr-77 180 109 Posted 2011-03-13 Vol 02 No 5 21 May-77 180 110 Posted 2011-04-08 Vol 02 No 6 22 Jun-77 184 113 Posted 2011-04-23 Vol 02 No 8 24 Aug-77 180 107 Posted 2010-09-26 Vol 02 No 9 25 Sep-77 228 143 Posted 2010-12-09 Vol 02 No 10 26 Oct-77 212 132 Posted 2010-12-16 Vol 02 No 11 27 Nov-77 260 160 Posted 2013-08-06 Vol 02 No 12 28 Dec-77 228 143 Posted 2011-01-25 Vol 03 No 1 29 Jan-78 194 121 Posted 2011-02-21 Vol 03 No 2 30 Feb-78 212 131 Posted 2010-08-22 Vol 03 No 3 31 Mar-78 228 154 Posted 2011-03-10 Vol 03 No 4 32 Apr-78 212 133 Posted 2013-11-11 Vol 03 No 5 33 May-78 Vol 03 No 6 34 Jun-78 212 133 Posted 2011-05-08 Vol 03 No 7 35 Jul-78 Vol 03 No 8 36 Aug-78 212 128 Posted 2010-12-19 Vol 03 No 9 37 Sep-78 212 130 Posted 2011-03-05 Vol 03 No 10 38 Oct-78 Vol 03 No 11 39 Nov-78 Vol 03 No 12 40 Dec-78 Vol 04 No 1 41 Jan-79 228 151 Posted 2011-03-06 Vol 04 No 2 42 Feb-79 236 150 Posted 2011-03-20 Vol 04 No 3 43 Mar-79 276 174 Posted 2011-04-15 Vol 04 No 4 44 Apr-79 284 176 Posted 2011-01-07 Vol 04 No 5 45 May-79 292 183 Posted 2011-04-28 Vol 04 No 6 46 Jun-79 288 184 Posted 2011-01-20 Vol 04 No 7 47 Jul-79 276 175 Posted 2013-09-30 Vol 04 No 8 48 Aug-79 268 180 Posted 2013-08-08 Vol 04 No 9 49 Sep-79 260 176 Posted 2010-12-27 Vol 05 No 1 53 Jan-80 276 182 Posted 2010-09-18 Vol 05 No 2 54 Feb-80 260 179 Posted 2010-08-15 Vol 05 No 3 55 Mar-80 294 200 Posted 2010-10-08 Vol 05 No 4 56 Apr-80 308 204 Posted 2010-11-24 Vol 05 No 5 57 May-80 344 221 Posted 2011-04-03 Vol 05 No 6 58 Jun-80 Vol 05 No 7 59 Jul-80 Vol 05 No 8 60 Aug-80 308 207 Posted 2010-08-06 Vol 05 No 9 61 Sep-80 Vol 05 No 10 62 Oct-80 404 281 Posted 2010-11-19 Vol 05 No 11 63 Nov-80 Vol 05 No 12 64 Dec-80 404 276 Posted 2010-08-25 Vol 06 No 1 65 Jan-81 Vol 06 No 2 66 Feb-81 524 337 Posted 2013-10-14 Vol 06 No 3 67 Mar-81 Vol 06 No 4 68 Apr-81 418 279 Posted 2010-09-23 Vol 06 No 5 69 May-81 Vol 06 No 7 71 Jul-81 Vol 06 No 8 72 Aug-81 496 327 Posted 2011-05-10 Vol 06 No 9 73 Sep-81 500 330 Posted 2011-08-20 Vol 06 No 10 74 Oct-81 530 345 Posted 2011-08-27 Vol 06 No 11 75 Nov-81 572 377 Posted 2011-09-05 Vol 06 No 12 76 Dec-81 548 379 Posted 2010-08-07 Vol 07 No 3 79 Mar-82 532 353 Posted 2011-03-17 Vol 07 No 4 80 Apr-82 548 369 Posted 2013-08-29 Vol 07 No 5 81 May-82 548 342 Posted 2013-09-10 Vol 07 No 6 82 Jun-82 564 373 Posted 2010-10-23 Vol 07 No 7 83 Jul-82 Vol 07 No 8 84 Aug-82 Vol 07 No 10 86 Oct-82 532 349 Posted 2013-08-22 Vol 07 No 11 87 Nov-82 636 428 Posted 2011-01-02 Vol 07 No 12 88 Dec-82 596 402 Posted 2011-04-10 Vol 08 No 2 ?? Feb-83 Vol 08 No 5 ?? May-83 596 397 Posted 2010-08-18 Vol 08 No 8 ?? Aug-83 578 380 Posted 2010-08-12 Vol 08 No 9 ?? Sep-83 674 442 Posted 2010-08-29 Vol 08 No 10 ?? Oct-83 676 462 Posted 2010-11-28 Vol 08 No 12 ?? Dec-83 660 456 Posted 2011-03-11 Vol 09 No 1 ?? Jan-84 Vol 09 No 2 ?? Feb-84 548 386 Posted 2011-01-13 Vol 09 No 3 ?? Mar-84 Vol 09 No 4 ?? Apr-84 Vol 09 No 5 ?? May-84 586 404 Posted 2011-03-25 Vol 09 No 6 ?? Jun-84 Vol 09 No 7 ?? Jul-84 456 313 Posted 2013-11-04 ** Last 16 pages missing ** Vol 09 No 9 ?? Spec 298 192 Posted 2011-05-08 Vol 09 No 10 ?? Sep-84 536 355 Posted 2013-11-25 ** Latest ** Vol 09 No 11 ?? Oct-84 Vol 09 No 12 ?? Nov-84 Vol 10 No 1 ?? Jan-85 500 335 Posted 2013-08-15 Vol 10 No 4 ?? Apr-85 Vol 10 No 5 ?? May-85 544 344 Posted 2013-10-07 Vol 10 No 6 ?? Jun-85 Vol 10 No 7 ?? Jul-85 490 324 Posted 2013-10-21 Vol 10 No 8 ?? Aug-85 Vol 10 No 9 ?? Sep-85 494 333 Posted 2013-10-28 Vol 10 No 10 ?? Nov-85 Vol 10 No 11 ?? Spec 310 209 Posted 2010-12-04 Vol 10 No 12 ?? Nov-85 Vol 11 No 1 ?? Jan-86 478 323 Posted 2013-09-06 Vol 11 No 2 ?? Feb-86 Vol 11 No 3 ?? Mar-86 480 327 Posted 2010-09-14 Vol 11 No 4 ?? Apr-86 Vol 11 No 5 ?? May-86 Vol 11 No 6 ?? Jun-86 464 318 Posted 2010-12-09 Vol 11 No 7 ?? Jul-86 Vol 11 No 8 ?? Aug-86 Vol 11 No 9 ?? Sep-86 478 331 Posted 2011-03-07 Vol 11 No 10 ?? Oct-86 418 282 Posted 2013-11-18 Vol 11 No 12 ?? Nov-86 Vol 11 No 13 ?? Dec-86 458 322 Posted 2011-04-19 Notes on issue numbers: BYTE did not use volume numbers for the first sixteen issues. These are labeled as Vol 00-##. Issue Vol 2-01 is the 17th issue. BYTE had several years where 13 issues were produced. These will be highlighted as they pop up. Edited November 25, 2013 by ThumpNugget 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 BYTE #3 November 1975 Is This Next? - 100 pages, 60 Megs Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-03 1975-11 Is This Next? Hi-lights in this issue: Foreground INS AND OUTS OF VOLATILE MEMORIES COMPUTERS ARE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE COMPUTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO SON OF MOTOROLA (OR, THE $20 CPU CHIP) - A first look at this weird chip called the "6502". Background HEXPAWN - PROJECT IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOTES ON PARALLEL OUTPUT INTERFACES MONITOR 8 1/2 - YOUR OWN PSEUDO INSTRUCTIONS VERSATILE READ ONLY MEMORY PROGRAMMER Nucleus From the Publisher Speaking of Computers Book Reviews Byter's Digest Clubs and Newsletters Diagnostics Letters BOMB Reader's Service Cover Index Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpicyChronos Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 This is totally awesome! Thanks Thumpnugget! When a torrent gets going, I'll be sure to provide as much bandwidth to it as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 BYTE Vol 5-08 August 1980 - The Fourth Language - 308 pages, 207 Megs (Previously posted but I moved it) Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-08 1980-08 The Fourth Language Cover Index Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 8, 2010 Author Share Posted August 8, 2010 BYTE Vol 06-12 1981-12 Computer Games - 548 Pages, 379 Megs (ouch!) This issue has an article from Chris Crawford covering display lists, lots of game reviews for the Atari as well as many other 8-bit machines. Download it here: Byte Vol 06-12 1981-12 Computer Games Cover Index I actually did this scan long ago so it is not one of my best (some streaks) but it is OCR'd and bookmarked like the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Oh man!! Thanks for doing these. Great memories, and actually some good ideas. I had stacks of BYTE. Had to get rid of them long ago. Glad not everybody did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 BYTE Vol 06-12 1981-12 Computer Games - 548 Pages, 379 Megs (ouch!) I've had that one out and in a plastic bag (because the cover came detached or something) for ages. And some of these date back to before I first got a subscription. FYI, I have scanned and mostly OCRed (primarily the body text) the book Threaded Interpretive Languages. If I had a good modern page-layout program for OS X, I'd try to make a good PDF of it. But I want something that can force line breaks in the middle of justified paragraphs so that I can match the line breaks of the original paper version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 BYTE Vol 08-08 1983-08 The C Programming Language - 578 Pages, 380 Megs (very big!) This issue is all about the C programming language... Including a primer for people new to C (many articles) and comparisons of a couple dozen C compilers for MS-DOS, CP/M-86, CP/M-80, and UNIX. Other articles about the Apple III, a UNIX Tutorial, part 3 of an in-depth look at the 8086 architecture, etc.. Not much on the Atari though the Microbytes had some tidbits on a telecom system for the 2600 and also has news about the Coleco Adam and a Digital Research working on an alternative to the upcoming "Juggernaut" MSX operating system being backed by Microsoft Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-08 1983-08 The C Programming Language Cover Index Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 These are awesome. Thanks ThumpNugget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Love those Tinney covers. That was part of what made Byte awesome in the '80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoTonah Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Please, please keep going with this. Awesome stuff, brings back so many memories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 (edited) Seriously. Did you guys read the Bill Gates article in the last one scanned? I have it up on my office window now. It's quite a treat. Thank you, thank you for doing these. I've got several great inspirations for some assembly language tutorial, background stuff from these. The perspective of BYTE is very good for introductory style work. Love being able to see some of it again. It's also great to see the past, and know just how much we all learned from this great magazine. Nothing today even comes close! Used to be, one could go shopping with mom, and come back with graphics, assembly language, the introduction on a new language, games, and all sorts of other goodies for a few bucks. Now, it's reviews and some little bits here and there. What a golden time! Edited August 16, 2010 by potatohead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 I am so glad people are enjoying these. I really enjoy reading these while putting them together. I just finished doing an issue today from 1983 that covered the Electronic Office - Best one yet! huge article on networking standards, the upcoming technology of computer based meetings to replace business travel, reviews on the trs-80 model 100, the fortune 16:32, a big feature on the Osborne Executive - was just an awesome read.. I will get it put up before the end of the week. I almost scored an issue #1 this week but the deal fell through... Right now there are a few people putting BYTES up on ebay for crazy crazy prices so the waiting-to-scan stack may not grow much for a while as everyone seems to think that their BYTES are worth their weight in gold. Anyway hopefully we can keep this on the down-low just a tad I have a transfer limit of about 300 gigabytes per week for this and so far we are nowhere near that but with these size of downloads one errant blog post could top it out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I'll start grabbing these a bit later. Maybe you could give priority to the ones with the most Atari stuff in them getting done first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 BYTE Vol 05-02 1980-02 Graph Theory - 260 Pages, 179 Megs This issue is on graph theory so if you like math hey here is an issue for you. There is also an article on creating computer controlled dimmer switches and a computer controlled wood stove.. Not my favorite issue but how about that cover? Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-02 1980-02 Graph Theory Cover Index Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariNerd Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 A lot of these articles on early protocals, the early computer club scenes, the emergence of the 6502 and the rise of Microsoft are just so much reading candy i'm in Nerdvana. Thanks Thumpnugget For what it is worth, I rather liked K.C. Munchkin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 (edited) Wow, that's amazing, I love issue 3 from 1975 and the FIRST computer game book review (page 11): What to do after you hit return. Edited August 16, 2010 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office - 596 Pages, 397 Megs This issue of BYTE has a focus on the electronic office. Topics include local area networks, the movable conference, electronic publishing, and white-collar productivity. These are in-depth articles on the then-present sate of the art and future predictions. There is another great article following four start-up companies in Silicon Valley: Adaptec, Evotek, The learning company, and Victory computers. In the BYTE lines: Commodore to drop its 16 bit processor and go to the Zilog Z8000? Integrated Software the Key to success (lots of talk about xerox and PARC)? Atari Founder to start Robotics Company? Japan to launch new software development effort.... Not much for the Atari but articles on other 8-bits: Vic-20, TRS-80 Model 100, The TRS-80 Color Computer, the fortune 16:32, and the Corvus Computer. Much much more.. This one is choc full of information goodness Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office Cover Index Bonus! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 (edited) A lot of good stuff in this issue, but a couple of problems this time. Page 49 is rotated sideways. There seems to have been a feeder slip at pages 177-180. This was pretty obvious from just flipping through. After that I actually counted the pages and found nothing else missing. So what would be a good upper bound of issues worth scanning? I'd have to say about '84, particularly the Macintosh issue as the last notable one. After that point, the main good stuff was Pournelle's column. The magazine itself wasn't really bad until about '93 or so, but it just wasn't the same from '84 on. Edited August 19, 2010 by Bruce Tomlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 A lot of good stuff in this issue, but a couple of problems this time. Page 49 is rotated sideways. There seems to have been a feeder slip at pages 177-180. This was pretty obvious from just flipping through. After that I actually counted the pages and found nothing else missing. So what would be a good upper bound of issues worth scanning? I'd have to say about '84, particularly the Macintosh issue as the last notable one. After that point, the main good stuff was Pournelle's column. The magazine itself wasn't really bad until about '93 or so, but it just wasn't the same from '84 on. Thanks for catching that so fast.. I must have rotated that page accidentally when I was fixing the rotation on some of the others.. I had to rescan some of the pages but I neglected to get those redone.. I will fish the magazine out of the garbage and get those fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 OK! the last issue has been fixed and re-uploaded and all the posts with page counts / byte size have been updated. Regarding the question on how far (date wise) to go when scanning I was thinking at least through 1986. I sliced up a March 1986 for scanning today (The one with the Atari ST on the cover).. The articles are still interesting: preview of the 1040ST, Image processing the Titanic, Building a real-time clock, Building a simple windowing system, the new ANSI C Standard, A Macintosh disassembler, One titled "The electronic university, get a degree without leaving your computer".. Reviews of the Kaypro 286i, Modula-2 for Z80 CP/M, Pocket APL, Prolog for MSDOS.. Other Articles: The 68000 wars part I, The Amstrad PCW, two articles by Jerry Pournelle... a bunch of others. Still seems like lots of good stuff in 1986. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 The new PDF is broken. It's also about 70 megs smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiliteZoner Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office - 596 Pages, 397 Megs This issue of BYTE has a focus on the electronic office. Topics include local area networks, the movable conference, electronic publishing, and white-collar productivity. These are in-depth articles on the then-present sate of the art and future predictions. There is another great article following four start-up companies in Silicon Valley: Adaptec, Evotek, The learning company, and Victory computers. In the BYTE lines: Commodore to drop its 16 bit processor and go to the Zilog Z8000? Integrated Software the Key to success (lots of talk about xerox and PARC)? Atari Founder to start Robotics Company? Japan to launch new software development effort.... Not much for the Atari but articles on other 8-bits: Vic-20, TRS-80 Model 100, The TRS-80 Color Computer, the fortune 16:32, and the Corvus Computer. Much much more.. This one is choc full of information goodness Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office Cover Index Bonus! First of all thanks for these. This one in particular is giving me issues. It stops at 318 megs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 21, 2010 Author Share Posted August 21, 2010 The last issue should be 397 megs.. It shows that on my side and the transfer did not have any errors. I just checked the web site and it shows only 333 meg.. I am uploading it again now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted August 21, 2010 Author Share Posted August 21, 2010 OK... I finally was able to get a complete upload. The last BYTE magazine (Electronic Office) should be working and complete now. Sorry for the problems.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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