Byte had matured about as much as it could. Virginia wanted to cash in her
investment and not need to work the kind of hours she had for the
previous 4 and 1/2 years. Byte was sold to McGraw Hill whose
expertise was business magazines and moved out of the Peterborough
Guernsey Cattle building. Most of the Byte staffers we in NH for the
life style and would rather stay. That meant they would stay. There are
about 50 publishing houses around Peterborough look at some of the
old Byte mast heads and current publishing house and you will see
some familiar names.

There is an old publishing saying that says the whole company
leaves at 5 o'clock (actually more like midnight)

Personal computing had moved on. It was no longer important to
hack a tape recorder to store programs, publish yet another decimal
to hex program in machine readable barcode format.

The early days of Byte were heady times.

w..


Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> 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?

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