I loved Byte.  I can remember typing in "Hunt the Wumpus" from a listing 
in Byte onto my TRS-80.  Boy I feel old.


Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>>> I quit buying byte when they dropped the circuit cellar.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Blame McGraw-Hill's legal staff. 
>>     
>
> I still wonder why Byte, once a leading magazine (*the* maganize) on
> computers and related electronics transformed itself into a me-too type
> of computer magazine (aimed at managers instead of techies), and (of
> course) lost its readers and had to quit. Was the old format unfit for
> the new times? Or did some manager think this was a smart move? 
>
> As a boy I read, read and re-read the old bytes, with articles like
> Steve's PC clone (full schematics!), Jerry's adventures with TRS80
> memory expansion units, and in-depth articles about memory management on
> the Mac (remember, double-indirection instead of a memory management
> unit). CC still has a compareable level on the electronics side, drDobbs
> kept the flag on the software side for some time (but has IMHO also
> turned bad).
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
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