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Everything okay, Thumpnugget? I sincerely hope so... you're doing a great job with this!

 

WOW!! Look at all those S-100 bus systems! I fer'sure as hell thought that to be the end all be all for computing back in the 70's. Love them 32k Memory boards and rom boards. And I'd pay TOP-DOLLAR for an S-100 MicroModem ][ right about now!

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I should have a new mag up in a couple of days or so.

 

Great to hear! I've been enjoying the fruits of your labors all month (I used to be a subscriber when I was a kid, but my old magazines were lost in a basement flood).

 

If I may, I have a request for the queue - October, 1980. There's a particular article in that one I'd like to have again - "FLOPTRAN-IV: a Tiny Compiler", a program I typed in many years ago. It's essentially a reduced-feature-BASIC compiler (single-letter variable names, nearly no string handling, simplified loop and control syntax, etc) written in BASIC that mostly compiles your code down to a sequence of calls to the machine's ROM floating point routines with as little glue code as possible. Abacus apparently repackaged it as their "Tiny BASIC Compiler", but the article has the complete source code for the original (for the 8K PET). I ported it to the "new" ROMs (BASIC 3.0) and added a couple of essential features to allow me to compile some of the simpler programs from David Ahl's "101 Microcomputer Games".

 

Thanks!

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BYTE Vol 05-10 1980-10 Software - 404 Pages - 281,287,779 bytes

 

BYTE Volume 05-10 from October 1980... Good stuff in this issue! Interfacing an 8088 to the S-100 bus, Sorting with Binary Trees, FLOPTRAN-IV, Symbolic math with BASIC, adding instructions to the 6502, and vector graphics for raster displays.

 

The background articles include using liquid crystal displays, an informational retrieval system, adding macro expansion to a microcomputer, machine problem solving, and an interview with the FORTH standards team.

 

An interesting entry in the BYTElines about a new 32 bit processor - How long will it be before we see 32 bit computers? Maybe never, there is no need for home computers to have 32 bits.. Good call!

 

Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-10 1980-10 Software

 

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Index

 

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Bonus

 

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Ohh noooooooooohhhh!!! MORE S-100 BUS STUFF!?!?!?!? amazing we even made it to pci-e and usb3! Could you imagine USB 3.0 back then??

 

Well I'm looking forward to the article on the TRS-80 Pocket Computer, page 172. I still have my original one from way back then. Text-based Lunar Lander was a whole ton of fun! I imagined I was right beside Neil Armstrong, battling to get the ship down in one piece. Anyways, I learned B.A.S.I.C. on it. Well some of BASIC anyways.. I really got into programming BBS's when the II came out.

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BYTE Vol 05-10 1980-10 Software - 404 Pages - 281,287,779 bytes

 

Thank you! This issue has been great to re-visit. It's one of the ones I read from cover to cover over and over when it was new. I'm amazed at how many of the ads are so familiar to me, and I'm more amazed at how many companies I recognize not from 1980, but from later (especially the ones pushing DEC products - like the PDP-11/23 for a mere $6750!) when I worked at different companies that could afford "real" computers. I appreciate the S-100 articles and ads, but I barely touched those when they were new - I went from the 6502 right to the PDP-11 and VAX, and some of that history is quite well represented in Byte.

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BYTE Vol 05-04 1980-04 Printed Software - 308 Pages - 204,109,157 bytes

 

BYTE Volume 05-04 from April 1980... What amazing articles do we have in this issue? How about Computing the I Ching with a TRS-80, Disk file management techniques, Programming the 2708 EPROMS, Audio Processing on the APPLE II, and build your own EPROM eraser.

 

The Background articles include: Using the Computer ad a musicians Amanuensis, adding a simple text editor to your BASIC programs, easing into 16-bit computing, real-time music synthesis, learn to calculate the filter capacitor values for power supplies, and a graphics text editor for Music (part I).

 

Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-04 1980-04 Printed Software

 

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Index

 

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Bonus

 

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BYTE Vol 08-10 1983-10 UNIX - 676 Pages - 462,189,225 bytes

 

BYTE Volume 08-10 from October 1983... Huge Huge issue, the largest one scanned so far.. Sure to cause some pain on your hard drive :) This issue has a focus on UNIX. The Stories include: A product review of the HP 150 and an interview with the design team.. Part 2 of building a solid state video camera, a report from BYTE west coast, and a new User's column by Jerry Pournelle.

 

UNIX themes: The UNIX operating system primer, Part 3 the UNIX tutorial, Standardization of UNIX on small computers, The UNIX file system, the UNIX Shell, The UNIX Application environment, Usenet - a UNIX bulletin board, The UNIX Writer's workbench, Typesetting on UNIX systems, and Moving UNIX to new machines. Good stuff!

 

Reviews include: The NEC Advanced Personal Computer, The TRS-80 Model 4, The Morrow Micro Decision, The MicronEye, The m68000 Educational Computer Board, Fancy Font, and UNIX-style tools for CP/M.

 

And finally features: Photographic animation using microcomputers, The fourth national computer graphics conference, Echonet part 2, Computer Crime, putting mainframe graphics on microcomputer, talker, Bitmaps Speed Data-handling tasks, and simplified program interfacing.

 

The article on Computer crime (Computer Crime: A growing threat) was especially interesting... The microbytes are also interesting.. The announcement of the arrival of 256K DRAMS and WANG introduces the concept of grouping multiple DRAM chips into something called "single in0line memory module" or SIMM.

 

Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-10 1983-10 UNIX

 

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Quick update:

 

If you look at the first post in this thread you will notice that many magazines have been added. I received a package from AlanD that had 21 new magazines including the rest of 1976/77/78 issues that I did not have. We now have the first 49 issues of BYTE and only need a few more holes filled to have the first 70 or so.. Big thanks to AlanD, these are painful to order on eBay! Everyone should go find his posts talking about these magazines a page or so back and click on the + brownie points (or whatever they are called here :) ) and show him some love :)

 

Next issue posted will be #5.

 

Thanks!

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Glad they made it ok. I took longer than I expected because I packed up my game/computer room so we could repaint and lay hardwood floors and it literally took a week to find the box it was in. Never realized how much stuff I crammed into that small room :)

 

No thanks necessary for me. The friend of mine who gathered all of them would have prefered they were shared rather than sitting in a box in a closet somewhere.

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We now have the first 49 issues of BYTE and only need a few more holes filled to have the first 70 or so..

 

I'd love to help, but I don't have any (surviving) paper copies older than late 1982. I recently rescued four boxes of newer magazines from someone who was cleaning his house out, and would much rather share the proceeds than have them take up space at my place. If you need any specific issues from 1983 on, post a list and I'll check the cartons.

 

The recently-posted UNIX issue is a great one (and one I happen to have on paper). I brought it to work to show the young guys what life was like in the old days. They read the ads and are stunned into disbelief.

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Hopefully this is not a violation of the forum regulations, but I have a full collection of Byte - no missing issues, all but one issue are in excellent condition. Many of them are still wrapped in the mailer bags that they were delivered in.

If anybody is interested in a full set of the physical magazine, please let me know. Obviously size and weight of the collection would be a factor in getting them from me to you.....

While theoretically I would be interested in contributing to the scans, I wanted to see if anybody out there was interested in owning this set.

It also includes all the extra editions (IBM/Apple special editions, etc.)

 

I've moved into a smaller room in my house for my office and need to start getting rid of some stuff - my 18 year old book collection is also going. What am I going to do when I need to look up some reference on Java 1.2??? ;-)

 

Email me on my profile or at: appleton dot accounts at gmail dot com.

 

Cheers!

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BYTE Vol 00-05 1976-01 Build a Light Pen - 100 Pages 58,028,916 bytes

 

Issue #5 of BYTE Magazine... Another one for those that love hardware diagrams: Light pens, more on LIFE, Golf Handicapping, and photographic notes on wire wrapping... A new mini-microcomputer system, a horror story, the total kitchen information system, the INTEL 8080 OP CODE Table, more to blinking lights than meets the eye, taking advantage of memory address space, K or k? and finally a review of the CT-1024 Kit...

 

Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-05 1976-01 Build a Light Pen

 

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BYTE Vol 10-11 1985-10 Special Issue: Inside the IBM PCs - 310 Pages 208,460,825 bytes

 

BYTE "Special" Issue Vol 10-11 November 1985... All about the IBM PC - Bonus issue this week for everyone! Mainly because I did not want to waist an entire week on an issue devoted to the IBM PC. This issue is more interesting than it sounds! Maybe by like 10%... This is not the usual BYTE.. Very few ads in the back, chock full of articles.

 

Here is what is included in the 310 pages:

 

An Editorial on INTEL and Future IBM PCS.

A long bibliography on upcoming books

Public-Domain Utilities

ROM BIOS Extensions for the AT

Comparing 8087/80287 performance - Man the 80287 did not do that great

Moving from the 8088 to the 80286

Writing Desk Accessories

A MIDI Recorder

Circuit Design with Lotus 1-2-3

Adding a Hard Drive to a 80286

Fixed Disks and the PC AT

A survey of Debuggers

IBM Compatibility Issues

Benchmarking the Clones

Four hard drives for under $1000

Programing the EGA card

IBM PC Interrupt Service Routines

Pick, Coherent, and THEOS (multiuser operating systems)

One Million Promes through the Sieve

TopView - IBMs new multitasking for DOS

When your PC doesn't work

IBM PC Family BIOS Comparison

Device-Independent Graphics

IBM PC Disk Performance and the Interleave Factor

 

 

Download it here: BYTE Vol 10-11 1985-11 Special Issue: Inside the IBM PCs

 

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