+wood_jl Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I must pile on the heap of appreciation!! Doest thou have the June, 1986 edition, with the Mac Plus and 520ST review? Ahhh, the memories. Along with an expression of appreciation (what more have I?) I would like to ask about those issues which shine light on our (assumed) favorite Micro, the A8. One of the issues (already posted) contained a portion of the Chris Crawford (god bless him) series of articles on the Atari8 specialties. I will look back (humbly, and thankful) to see which issue it was. Might it be suggested to scan the antecedent parts of that series? I'm a little Atari8-centric, but the ST and Mac stuff is cool, too! It's all cool, and you're a huge boon to the community. I swear, I've never seen anything like it, and I'm all smiles and gratitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 (edited) yeh really, it seems like we just finish reading an issue and another automagically shows up. This is the best bathroom reading I've had in years!! Brings back the memories. There was a time when we were out at the ice station and the TP got wet and froze. So we really did use our Byte magazines as well as others for cleaning up! Edited December 7, 2010 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 yeh really, it seems like we just finish reading an issue and another automagically shows up. This is the best bathroom reading I've had in years!! Brings back the memories. There was a time when we were out at the ice station and the TP got wet and froze. So we really did use our Byte magazines as well as others for cleaning up! Gross - I'd be really afraid of a paper cut back there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 (edited) yeh really, it seems like we just finish reading an issue and another automagically shows up. This is the best bathroom reading I've had in years!! Brings back the memories. There was a time when we were out at the ice station and the TP got wet and froze. So we really did use our Byte magazines as well as others for cleaning up! Gross - I'd be really afraid of a paper cut back there You be surprised at how many cut backs there are at a government sponsored research station!! So each magazine we had was 300+ double-sized pages. We also had computer shopper. That was the most absorbent and worked quickly. The byte mags would require a holding period while they absorbed stuff. Besides, the byte magazine paper was pretty soft to begin with, not like a nat geo rag. Though that would be more appropriate. The nat geo probably wouldn't conform to curvature readily. Edited December 7, 2010 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exobuzz Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 (edited) Just again to add my appreciation for the effort. Massive thanks! I am still mirroring the stuff @ http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/byte/ and also @ ftp://aero.exotica.org.uk/pub/media/magazines/byte/ (slower but has all magazines as individual jpg also). Would be happy to hear from anyone who has some bandwidth and i can setup an rsync mirror for them since I am quite low on free bandwidth recently (due to another project of mine at http://joggler.exotica.org.uk/ ) with the creators consent of course .. or better if he wanted to offer it himself cheers. oh and let me know if i miss an issue please Edited December 7, 2010 by exobuzz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erd Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 You be surprised at how many cut backs there are at a government sponsored research station!! I wouldn't be surprised. Were you North or South? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 You be surprised at how many cut backs there are at a government sponsored research station!! I wouldn't be surprised. Were you North or South? North Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Did Byte ever do any articles on arcade game hardware?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Did Byte ever do any articles on arcade game hardware?? Jamming the Carpenters and Ambrosia and Ozark Mountain Daredevils, reading byte.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 You be surprised at how many cut backs there are at a government sponsored research station!! I wouldn't be surprised. Were you North or South? North, collecting some data for ice road truckers. Then down to McMurdo Station for more logistics and photography - not related to transportation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I just love the ridiculousness of some of these byte articles, for example, the TKIS on page 42 of Byte Vol 00-05 1976-01 Build a light pen.pdf Can you imagine the tediousness of setting up and maintaining that sort of system for just a basic family?? The amount of data entry is not much, but the tediousness of having to update it would be a real killer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 what year did byte run to?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epobirs Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 what year did byte run to?? 1998. I know exactly where I was when I found out. I had just checked into a hotel room in Atlanta. I was there for E3, expecting to cover the cost of the trip by writing up some observations for Byte. The Sega Dreamcast, using WinCE to support the DirectX APIs for easy porting from PC games, was my intended main focus. I went to check my email via dialup to my then Netcom account and one of the messages was from Jerry Pournelle to those of us in his advisory group. At that moment I found myself on an unpaid vacation. Needless to say, I was pissed. Byte was actually doing well, circulation wise. The problem was that McGraw-Hills sales force had no clue how to pitch it when it came to advertising sales in a world where personal computers had become commoditized so far as the general public was concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 (edited) Byte was actually doing well, circulation wise. The problem was that McGraw-Hills sales force had no clue how to pitch it when it came to advertising sales in a world where personal computers had become commoditized so far as the general public was concerned. At first, all I was gonna say was just change the style of advertising.. But that wouldn't work, you have all these wonderful technical articles that the everyday general public would not be interested in. I couldn't imagine a rag like byte surviving today. The ipod/ipone/ipad has dumbed-down everybody so much its pathetic. I saw what appeared to be a little kid of about 10 playing with herself at the grocery store, upon closer inspection this kid was fingering her iphone back and forth at top speed to simulate unrolling some toilet paper! It had a graphic of a roll of tp unwinding and a score and everything!! Annoying sound effects too! We practically died laughing at the sight of this nervous schism. And the kid was so focused on beating her score it was insane. The whole supermarket could have been torn down and she wouldn't have moved. She was drooling stupid and her mom had to wipe up the by now slippery touchscreen several times while just blindly repeating "stop that willyou come-on now STOP THAT!!!" http://www.ismashphone.com/2010/01/unroll-it-idrag-paper-free.html We're mobilizing and bringing-into-action a high-tech pocket computer with more power than all of Nasa in the 60's, AND a multi-billion dollar communications network so some kid be made more brain dead than she already is ? ? And it is so cool because you can share your high-scores with your facebook buddies and tell the world all about it on twitter! Yeh, that's why quality magazines like byte wouldn't cut it today. Edited December 9, 2010 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Wow, just reading US Computer Shopper bit the dust in 2009. Computer Shopper UK is still going, glad to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Wow, just reading US Computer Shopper bit the dust in 2009. Computer Shopper UK is still going, glad to see. What I knew as computer shopper died a lot sooner than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Any chance you have the January '83 issue in the queue? They've got an article on the Heathkit Hero robot I'd love to see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 Any chance you have the January '83 issue in the queue? They've got an article on the Heathkit Hero robot I'd love to see... Unfortunately I do not have that issue yet.. If someone out there has it and would like to cough it up.. The next two issues are done, I just have to get them uploaded.. Should be up later tonight: September 1977 and June 1986 (both computer music issues). I'll do a few issues with the A8 next.. I think the Chris Crawford articles ran for about a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erd Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Any chance you have the January '83 issue in the queue? Unfortunately I do not have that issue yet.. If someone out there has it and would like to cough it up.. I can check my boxes later this week. That's new enough I might have it on paper and I would be happy to donate it to the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 BYTE Vol 02-09 1977-09 Music and Computers - 228 Pages 143,137,577 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 02-09 September 1977... Music and Computers. An early BYTE covering Music.. Foreground SCORTOS: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MUSIC LANGUAGE CONTROL THE WORLD! (OR AT LEAST A FEW ANALOG POINTS) TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTER PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC TUNE IN WITH SOME CHIPS AN APL INTERPRETER FOR MICROCOMPUTERS, Part 2 Background A NEW DRESS FOR KIM EXPANDING THE TINY ASSEMBLER ONE-SIDED VIEW OF WIRE WRAP SOCKETS THE NOVAL 760 NOTES ON INTERFACING PLAYER PIANOS NOTES ON ANATOMY: THE PIANO'S REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WALSH FUNCTIONS: A DIGITAL FOURIER SERIES Nucleus In this BYTE Reflections on Entry into Our Third Year Letters Alphanumeric Music Review: Heuristics Speech Lab Technical Forum: Personal Computer Network Adding New Transcendentals to Limited BASICs On Finite State Machines and Their Uses Comments on Floating Point Representation Download it here: BYTE Vol 02-09 1977-09 Music and Computers Cover Index 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 BYTE Vol 11-06 1986-06 Computers and Music - 464 Pages 318,067,690 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 11-06 June 1986... Computers and Music. An two-fer this week.. Compare how things changed in nine years with music. FEATURES INTRODUCTION PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: THE MACINTOSH PROGRAMMING PROJECT: A SIMPLE FILE-INDEXING SCHEME ClARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: ADDING SCSI TO THE SBI80 COMPUTER, PART 2: Bus PHASES SORTING PRoDOS DIRECTORIES DECODING MACPAINT ON THE IBM PC PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: HILBERT CURVES MADE SIMPLE THEME: COMPUTERS AND MUSIC THE CHALLENGE OF MUSIC SOFTWARE DIGITAL MUSIC SYNTHESIS DIGITAL SAMPLING ON THE APPLE MACINTOSH MUSICAL FRACTALS A MIDI PROJECT MIDI PROGRAMMING REVIEWS REVIEWER'S NOTEBOO THE ATARI 520ST COMPA~ DESKPRO 286 TELE-286 MIX C. FOUR MIDI INTERFACES CONCERTWARE+ AND SONGPAINTER THE KURZWEIL 250 DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER REVIEW FEEDBACK KERNEL COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: COLOR AND CP/M by lerry Pournelle BYTE U.K.: MODEM MYSTERIES REVEALED APPLICATIONS ONLY: UPGRADE FEVER BYTE JAPAN: NEW TOOLS, NEW CHALLENGES ACCORDING TO WEBSTER: STORAGE FOR THE MASSES BEST OF BIX AMIGA ATARI ST IBM PC AND COMPATIBLES MACINTOSH Download it here: BYTE Vol 11-06 1986-06 Computers and Music Cover Index 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Page 90 is kind of washed out, but still readable. Could it have been that way in the original? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Oh, man, TWO great issues!!! Thanks so much!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yak Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 I'm continuing to enjoy these; my iPad is getting nicely stocked now. I'll be 8 hours on the train on Wednesday so I'll be grateful of all the reading material . Thanks again for the scan stream . Speaking of dumb stuff on iDevices, some of us are using the awesome power and graphical majesty of these incredible machines to... er... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Wow, thanks for doing all this! I, too, mostly skipped Byte during the '80s. Now I really wish I hadn't. Great stuff in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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