The early days of Byte and personal computing. Robert Tinney is
a great cover artist. The personal computing world has changed.
I remember spending a late evening in Carl's livingroom going through
several hundred articles that were submitted for publication. Many were
for small code fragments (in assembler), we were at one point
stacking all the binary to hex ascii articles in one pile.

I have the cover master for April 1980 Byte framed on a wall in our
offices.

Getting the simplest working computers together was difficult and
expensive. The good old days were not so good. The price of
5" floppy disk drive (100K bytes or so)  then buys a 100G USB
drive now.

The early shows were fun in Trenton and Atlantic City. The Itty Bitty
Machine company had a booth beside the other IBM at one show.
Fun times were had by all.

w..



Hazelwood Lyle wrote:

> It is apparent that many here have some nostalgia for old Byte magazines.
>
> I decorate my home office with prints by Robert Tinney, who used to do the
> artwork for Byte back in the pre-windows days. He still offers many prints
> of the works used by Byte magazine.
>
> www.tinney.net should get you there. The T-Shirt selection is VERY limited
> nowadays, but the selection of prints is pretty good. I'm proud to own a few
> myself.
>
> Lyle


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