Man I remember going through many issues of Byte and coming away feeling like my brain was bruised. They had some seriously high-end ideas floating around in that magazine. They were probably the single best mainstream source for computer information.
Then Computer Shopper got big, and really put the hurt on Byte, because people stopped being as interested in learning about computers, and became more interested in buying them cheap cheap cheap. And that was Computer Shopper in a nutshell; a gigantic (GIGANTIC) compendium of ads with the occasional low-rent article.
Byte was much better, but much less popular, sadly.
It can be pretty dry at times, but man, it was so interesting, back in the day. Nobody had any real idea what these newfangled things would be capable of, so the sheer variety of articles was amazing, ranging from scholarly to practical home solutions to solving big-business problems.
IIRC, it was Byte that first started seriously paying attention to the C language, for instance, although that memory is pretty fuzzy.
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Man I remember going through many issues of Byte and coming away feeling like my brain was bruised. They had some seriously high-end ideas floating around in that magazine. They were probably the single best mainstream source for computer information.
Then Computer Shopper got big, and really put the hurt on Byte, because people stopped being as interested in learning about computers, and became more interested in buying them cheap cheap cheap. And that was Computer Shopper in a nutshell; a gigantic (GIGANTIC) compendium of ads with the occasional low-rent article.
Byte was much better, but much less popular, sadly.
Thank you for your input! I will check the Byte magazine!
It can be pretty dry at times, but man, it was so interesting, back in the day. Nobody had any real idea what these newfangled things would be capable of, so the sheer variety of articles was amazing, ranging from scholarly to practical home solutions to solving big-business problems.
IIRC, it was Byte that first started seriously paying attention to the C language, for instance, although that memory is pretty fuzzy.