This is a long story...
Byte was started by Wayne Green (yes the same who was also editor of 
73 Magazine)
To cut some episodes, a few months later the magazine was taken over 
by Carl Helmers and went great guns until Mac Graw Hill became the 
owner. From that point it was downhill all the way. It became just 
another magazine full of adds with a few reviews that you can now 
find free of charge on the internet.
After that episode Byte was bought by CPM (or CMP ???) and just 
became rubbish and one day just disappeared. At that time I was still 
a "faithful" or more likely "foolish" subscriber and it took me the 
whole of one year to get my money back!
After that there was a web edition, I do not know if it still exists 
or not but you can check "byte.com"
Wayne said he was going to write the story, one day or another, but I 
do not know if he ever got round to it.
At the latter part of the life of Byte favorites were Circuit Cellar 
and Chaos Manor.
I still have the full collection in the attic.

I started with Circuit Cellar from number one, and I must say that 
the spirit of the magazine remained the same from day one

At 16:49 26/04/2006, you 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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