Byte Magazine

See also:

• http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm From the beginning through 1984. Scanned into PDF's and OCR'd for search.
• https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine Scanned archive of Byte Magazines.
• http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/publication/10.en.html Complete table of contents and one or two articles from issue 11 on

• Tom Hafhills home page - former editor of Byte
  • What happend to Byte?
• http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
• http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/index-table.html

bib1970.htm

bib1980.htm

bib1990.htm

Jan 1994 to May 1998: http://www.byte.com/art/art.htm

September 1987

• "Karmarker's Algorithm" (with Andrew Rockett)

Volumn 11 #7 July 1986

• GNU'S NOT UNIX Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system with BYTE editors. Conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards

Volumn 11 #1 January 1986 pdf ^

• ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIAS
• TELEVISIONS AS MONITORS
• COMPUTER CONTROL OF A VIDEO RECORDER
• VIDEODISCS AND COMPUTERS
• CONTROLLING VIDEODISCS WITH MICROS
• SYMPHONY: A FULL ORCHESTRA VERSION OF LOTUS 1·2·3
• CIARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: A MUSICAL TELEPHONE BELL
• THE WEST COAST FAIRE
• AN ADA LANGUAGE PRIMER, PART 2: TOOL BUILDING IN ADA
• KERMIT: A FILE-TRANSFER PROTOCOL FOR UNIVERSITIES. PART 2: STATES AND TRANSITIONS, HEURISTIC RULES. AND EXAMPLES

Volumn 10 #12 November 1985

• "The uPD7281 Processor, a non-vonNeumann chip designed for high-speed parallel processing of images" by Tom Jefferys,
• interview with Jay Milner the designer of the Amiga's Custom Graphics Chips
• Raster Operations (inc Hardware)
• Designing Systems for real-time Graphics.
• CDROM drives,
• using the Game Paddles on an Apple II to measure physical properties (light, temperature etc),
• Steve Ciarcia
• Extending Turbo Pascal
• an Assembler for VM2

Volumn 10 #1 Jan 1985

• The Apple Story, Part 2

Volumn 9 #12 Dec 1984

• The Apple Story, Part 1

Volumn 9 #7 July 1984 pdf

Volumn 9 #5 May 1984

• Trump Card Z8001-based ISA coprocessor

Volumn 8 #6 June, 1983.

• A Short History of MS-DOS
• An Inside Look at MS-DOS

Volumn 7 #12 December 1982

• "The 8051 One-Chip Microcomputer" by Howard Boyet
• "A Versatile Low-Cost Microprocessor Controller Module" by David L. Craig,

Volumn 7 #10 October 1982 pdf ^

• p.29 Beyond the Peaks of Visicalc [author Jack Bishop] Three new software packages help fiscal planners study large, complex financial models.
• p.40 Build the Microvox Text-to-Speech Synthesizer, Part 2 : Software [author Steve Ciarcia] Rules for conversion of plain English text to phonemes govern the operation of this SC-01A-based device.
• p.68 What Makes Business Programming Hard? [author James L. Woodward] A banker/programmer describes some of the pitfalls in writing software that handles "routine" business tasks.
• p.80 Adapting microcomputers to Wall Street [author Robert Franz] Microcomputers are fast becoming crucial tools for financial managers.
• p.96 Putting Real-World Interfaces to Work, Part 1 : Monitoring Physical Quantities with the TRS-80 [author William Barden Jr.] A summary of techniques for interfacing the TRS-80 to the "realworld" and a look at some of the transducers that provide practical applications.
• p.128 The State of Industrial Robotics [author J. Michael Callahan] Industrial robots are playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing. Here we look at some of the fundamentals of robot design and describe some robot subsystems.
• p.146 Marketplace [author Robert Dickinson] You can become an entrepreneur and pit your company against the competition in this two-player telecomputing game for the TRS-80 Model III. It's the sixth-place winner in the BYTE Game Contest.
• p.176 Ringquest [author Gordon Mills] You'll need to muster up more than the usual amount of game strategy for this adventure that sometimes penalizes the aggressive player. It captured fifth place in the BYTE Game Contest.
• p.210 The Case of the Purloined Object Code: Can It Be Solved? Part 2: Approaches to Software Protection [author Richard H. Stern] An expert on software-protection law tackles the tough issues.
• p.254 User's Column : A BASIC and Pascal Benchmark, Elegance, Apologies, and FORTH [author Jerry Pournelle] A microcomputer user assesses the speed and convenience of some languages currently available.
• p.291 An introduction to the Human Applications Standard Computer Interface, Part 1: Theory and Principles [author Chris Rutkowski] Six years' effort has already gone into developing an interface design that promises to make computing power more accessible to the general consumer.
• p.312 Programming Quickies: Generating Mohr's Circle
• p.315 The Personal Computer as an Interface to a Corporate Management Information System [author N. R. McBurney II] Designing an intelligent terminal program for the Apple II Plus.<br /><br />
• p.360 Software Arts' TK Solver [author Gregg Williams] Software Arts' new "toolkit" equation solver is like an electronic calculator for algebra.
• p.380 Naming Your Software [author Stephen A. Becker] Registered trademarks provide the best protection for your software creations.
• p.406 Program Your Own Text Editor , Part 2: Install the Video-Display-Oriented Text Editor on Your System [author Richard Fobes] A listing of the text editor's source code with numerous comments concludes this two-part article.

Volumn 7 #5 May 1982 pdf ^

• p.34 Everyone Can Know the Real Time by Steve Ciarcia Technological advances have made real-time clocks simple and inexpensive.
• p.60 Six Personal Computers from Japan by Christopher P. Kocher and Michael Keith A comparative review of the BMC if800, Canon CX-1. Hitachi MB-6890, NEC PC-8001A, Fujitsu FM-8. and Systems Formulate Corporation Bubcom80.
• p.106 Japan Update by Mark Haas The semiannual Consumer Electronics Show is on its way to becoming a showcase for new computer products.
• p.114 The Machines Behind the Machines by Phil Lemmons Several Japanese companies, both large and small, have their eyes on the American market.
• p.118 The Japanese Manufacturers-How Successful Will They Be? by Tod Zipnick How they fare depends largely on their ability to meet the needs of the American marketplace.
• p.140 Japan Maps Computer Domination by Tom Manuel Ten-year R&D effort aims to leapfrog U.S. technology.
• p.148 The Atari Tutorial, Part 9: Even More Colors by Kathleen Pitta and Lane Winner Television artifacts and the new GTIA chip allow even more colors to be displayed on Atari computers.
• p.162 Ports of Entry and Soft Breezes for the Color Computer and Model III by William Barden Jr. A $10 anemometer and other remote-sensing projects using the cassette interface.
• p.202 The Input/Output Primer, Part 4: The BCD and Serial Interfaces by Steve Leibson A look at one of the least understood interfaces - the RS-232C - and one of the first instrument interfaces.
• p.226 The User's Column: Supercalc, Spelling Programs, BASIC Compliers, and Home-Grown Accounting by Jerry Pournelle A critical computer user surveys new programs, including one of his own.
• p.274 More Maze Building by Thomas Edward Neldner A Pascal program to generate mazes efficiently on a printer.
• p.318 TRS-80 BASIC Program Hang-ups: The Reasons and Some Solutions by Glenn Tesler Understand and eliminate those mysterious crashes on your TRS-80 Model I.
• p.334 Anatomy and Development of a Batch-Processing System by Gene Walters A software system that lets your computer run a series of programs without your intervention.
• p.426 CHEDIT: A Graphics-character Editor by Jerry N. Sweet Define your own character set for Apple Pascal.
• p.446 Give Your Apple a Voice: A Speech-Development System Using the Radio Shack Speech Synthesizer by John Blankenship How to make your Apple II talk.
• p.465 Programming PERT In BASIC by Steven Zimmerman and Leo M. Conrad A method for planning complex activities where no precedents exist.
• p.479 CP/M, Your Time Has Come: A Real-Time Clock for the Most Popular Microcomputer Operating System by J. L. Calaway and B. Hill All the hardware and software you need to get time-of-day printouts whenever you like.

October 1981 Local Networks

September 1982

• Advanced Star Raider Tactics and Strategies

August 1981

• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

September 1980

• EXPLORING BALLISTICS WITH YOUR COMPUTER by Robert W. Jenks. This BASIC program helps the target shooter to calculate the complex path of bullets.
• AN INTERRUPT-DRIVEN REAL-TIME CLOCK FOR THE TMS 9900 by Thomas G. Morris Jr.
• MACHINE PROBLEM SOLVING, PART 1: TRIAL-AND-ERROR SEARCH, A MECHANICAL PLAN TO SAVE THE MISSIONARIES by Peter W. Frey.
• VARIETIES OF THREADED CODE FOR LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION by Terry Ritter and Gregory Walker. Some kinds of threaded code are position and system independent.
• A BASIC FLOPPY-DISK ACCOUNTING SYSTEM by Joseph J. Roehrig.
• KHACHIYAN'S ALGORITHM, PART 2: PROBLEMS WITH THE ALGORITHM by G. C. Berresford, A. M. Rockett, and J. C. Stevenson.

October 1980

• "Khachiyan's Algorithm and the Microcomputer II" (with Geoffrey Berresford and Andrew Rockett)

September 1979
Cover art: "Fantasy on Homebrewing by Robert Tinney.

• Foreground
  • Joystick Interfaces by Steve Ciarcia
  • Introduction to Multipgrogramming by MarkDulmke pg 20
  • Interface a Chessboard to you KIM-1 by Jeff Teeters pg 34
  • A Low-Speed Analog to Digitial Converter by Richard C. Hallgren pg 70
  • The Nature of Robots, Part 4 by William T. Powers pg 96
  • Inexpensive, Optical Paper-Tape Reader by Brian A Harron pg 118 A manual paper-tape reader with no moving parts
  • A Model of the Brain for Robot Control, Part 4 by James Albus pg 130 Decision-making procedures.
• Background
  • Some Musings on Hardware Design by Clayton Ellis pg 62 Simple design techniques
  • Soldering Techniques by William Trimmer pg 84
  • Handy Pulser by Bob Crisp pg 160 A simple, circuit-debugging tool
  • The AMSAT-GOLEM 80 by Joe Kasser pg 182
  • Add Some Control to Your Computer by Ken Barbier pg 196 Let your computer influence the outside world.

Also:

• BYTE’s first ad for a product called VisiCalc appeared in the September 1979 issue on page 51. The ad’s text compared the time and effort it took to plan, project, write, estimate, calculate, revise, erase, and recalculate figures using a calculator, pencil, and paper, versus carrying out these steps by computer.
• New England Electronics full page ad in Byte Magazine announcing the Revolutionary TI-99/4 Personal/Educational Computer with caution availability is subject to allocation

June 1979

• 10 A MODEL OF THE BRAIN FOR ROBOT CONTROL, Part 1: Defining Notation, by James Albus
• 49 MIND OVER MATTER, Add Biofeedback Input to Your Computer, by Steve Ciarcia
• 100 COMPUTER GENERATED MAPS, Part 2, by William D Johnston
• 132 THE NATURE OF ROBOTS, Part 1: Defining Behavior by William T Powers
• 176 DESIGNING A COMMAND LANGUAGE, by G A Van den Bout
• 36 SIMPLE MAZE TRAVERSAL ALGORITHMS, by Sandra and Stephen A Allen
• 60 MORE COLORS FOR YOUR APPLE, by Allen Watson III
• 70 A HOME FOR YOUR COMPUTER, by Doseph Dawes
• 74 TALK TO A TURTLE: Build a Computer Controlled Robot, by James A Gupton Jr
• 86 MY COMPUTER RUNS MAZES, by David E Stanfield
• 146 THE 1802 OP CODES, by Henry Melton
• 148 THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING: THE IBM 7070, by Keith S Reid-Green
• 152 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENTROPY, by R M Keihn
• 156 BASIC TEST EDITOR, by Fred Ruckdeschel
• 166 BUBBLE MEMORIES: A Short Tutorial, by A I Halsema
• 168 STACKS IN MICROPROCESSORS, by T Radhakrishnan and M B Bhat
• 228 TIMESHAREING: SQUEEZING THE MOST FROM YOUR MICRO, by Sheldon Linker
• 234 THREE TYPE OF PSEUDORANDOM SEQUENCES, by C Brian Honess

March 1979

• 66 THE STANDARD DATA ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM, Part 1: An Overview by Robert B Meushaw
• 94 DESIGNING WITH DOUBLE SIDED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS, by David Lamkins
• 114 DESIGNING A ROBOT FROM NATURE, Part 2: Constructing the Eye, by Andrew Filo
• 142 A STEPPING MOTOR PRIMER, PART 2, by Paul Giacomo
• 150 BUILD A COMPUTER CONTROLLED SECURITY SYSTEM FOR YOU HOME, Part 3, by Steve Ciarcia
• 196 THE POWER OF THE HP-67 PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATOR, Part 1, by Robert C Arp Jr.
• 12 BUILDING THE HEATH H8 COMPUTER, by Dr Paul R Poduska
• 14 A MAP OF THE TMS-9900 INSTRUCTION SPACE, by Henry Melton
• 32 FILES ON PARADE, Part 2: Using Files, by Mark Klein
• 46 A MICROPROCESSOR FOR THE REVOLUTION: THE 6800, Part 3, by Terry Ritter and Joel Boney
• 56 CRYPTOGRAPHY IN THE FIELD, Part 1: An Overview, by John P Costas, Phd
• 80 PREVIOW OF THE Z-8000 by Ira Rampil
• 170 COMMON MISTAKES USING WARNIER-ORR DIAGRAMS, by David Higgins
• 194 PASSWORD PROTECTION FOR YOUR COMPUTER, by R Jordan Kreindler
• 230 WHAT IS AN INTERRUPT? by R. Travis Atkins
• 238 HISTORY OF COMPUTERS: THE IBM 650, by Keith S Reid-Green

February 1979

• 46 USE YOUR TELEVISION SET AS A VIDEO MONITOR, by Timothy Loos
• 70 THE ECLECTIC CARD READER, by Anthony J Schaeffer
• 90 A STEPPING MOTOR PRIMER: Theory of Operation, by Paul Giacomo
• 108 FAST FOURIER FOR THE 6800, by Richard H Lord
• 162 BUILD A COMPUTER CONTROLLED SECURITY SYSTEM FOR YOUR HOME, by Steve Ciarcia
• 12 DESIGN A ROBOT FROM NATURE: Biological Considerations, by Andrew Filo
• 32 A MICROPROCESSOR FOR THE REVOLUTION: The 6809, by Terry Ritter and Joel Boney
• 66 ANOTHER PLOTTER TO TOY WITH, by Peter A lucas
  Build a plotter with an Etch-a-Sketch!
• 76 ASSEMBLING THE ADM-3A, by Paul Franson
• 84 A HOBBIST ROBOT ARM, by Keith Baxter and Timothy Daly
• 120 APPROACHING GAME PROGRAM DESIGN, by H L Stuck
• 154 UNLIMITED PRECISION DIVISION, by Jef Raskin
• 180 HAMMING ERROR CORRECTING CODE, by Michael Wimble
• 186 FILES ON PARADE: Types of Files, by Mark Klein

January 1979

• jan1979_6809_Articles.pdf Foreground
• 56 BUILD A COMPUTER CONTROLLED SECURITY SYSTEM FOR YOUR HOME, by Steve Ciarcia Part 1 of 3
• 84 A COMPUTERIZED MAILING LIST, by Thomas E. Doyle
• 90 LIFE ALGORITHMS, by Mark B Niemiec
• 104 POLYPHONY MADE EASY, by Steven K Roberts
• 186 AN AUDIBLE LOGIC TEST PROBE, by James L Woodward
• 190 HISTORY OF COMPUTERS: The IBM 704, by Keith S Reid-Green
• 32 A MICROPROCESSOR FOR THE REVOLUTION: The 6809, by Terry Ritter and Joel Boney
• 74 AN EXPOSURE TO MUMPS, by David D Sherertz
• 100 THE DIGICAST YSTEM: Receiveing Data and Information Over Your FM Radio, by A I Halsema
• 110 GRANDMASTER WALTER BROWNE VERSUS CHESS 4.6, by John R Douglas
• 116 AN INTRODUCTION TO BNF, by W D Maurer
• 126 CREATING A CHESS PLAYER, Part 4: Strategy in Computer Chess, by Peter W Frey and Larry R Atkin
• 146 IPS, AN UNORTHODOX HIGH LEVER LANGUAGE, by Dr. Karl Meinzer
• 174 GOTOlocks AND THE THREE SORTS, by Gwen Hadley.
• 182 ELEMENTS OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION, by Alan B Forsythe

August through December 1978

• Tiny Pascal
• Computer Chess
• 8 queens problem
• Simpler digital cassette tape interface
• Souping up your SWTPc 6800
• Computer Chess tutorial
• Bar code reader
• PAM/8 Front Panel
• Assembling the H9 Video display terminal
• Ham radio
• Communicating over VHF radio
• Hobbiest Computer Bulletin Board System (HBBS) - Christienson
• Altair S-100 to LSI-11 adapter
• Interface your computer to a printing calculator
• creating a chess player
• Partitioned data sets
• Fortran
• Game of LIFE
• non-contact touch sensor
• Pascal vs Cobol
• Pascal vs BASIC
• Philadelphia's 179 year old android
• Steve Ciarcia

June 1978

• A PROGRAMMABLE CHARACTER GENERATOR, Part 2: Software Software-Weinstein
• A PROGRAMMABLE IC TESTER Test Equipment- Thorson
• MORE MUSIC FOR THE 6502 Software, Music-O'Haver
• TALK TO ME: Add a Voice to Your Computer for $35 Speech Synthesis- Ciarcia
• A THEATRICAL LIGHTING GRAPHICS PACKAGE Video Displays-Hemsath-Seawright-Ghent-Garrard
• GRAPH: A SYSTEM FOR TELEVISION GRAPHICS: Part 2 Software, Video Graphics-Webster- Young
• AUDIO PROCESSING WITH A MICROPROCESSOR Real Time Applications-O'Haver Background
• NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND SMALL SYSTEMS Tutorial-Tennant
• GIVE AN EAR TO YOUR COMPUTER: A Speech Recognition Primer Artificial Intelligence-Georgiou
• THE HP-67 AND HP-97: Hewlett-Packard's Personal Computers Product Review-Pearce
• NOTES ON TEACHING WITH MICROCOMPUTERS Education-Norton
• A LOOK AT SHUGART'S NEW FIXED DISK DRIVE Product Description -Morgan;
• Cover art is Shakespeare’s Cyrano de Begerac

February, May, June, and July 1978

• KIM-1 Timer
• Dynamic Memory
• Short history of computing
• keyboard function decoder
• controlling dc motors
• axiom EX800 printer
• Programmable character generator
• music for the 6502
• add voice to your computer for $35
• programmable ic tester
• HP 67, HP 97
• Shugart's new fixed drive (SA4000 $2550 for 14.5Mb)
• 3D graphics
• Light wand amplifier
• Matrox Alt-256 video board
• 3D plotting
• Convert your TV set to a monitor
• AC wireless remote control system (X-10)
• Minifloppy (5.25" floppy)
• CIE-Net (networking your PC)
• Steve Ciarcia

Volumn 3 number 2, Feburary 1978

• Foregeround
  • Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: A Penny Pinching Address State Analyzer 6 Steve Ciarcia
  • Taking the First Step 35 Robert E. Bober
  • Simulation of Motion, Part 4: Extended Objects, Applications for Boating 42 Stephen P. Smith
  • Add A $3 Light Pen Video Display 52 John Webster, John Young
  • SWEETS for KIM: A Low Calorie Text Editor 62 Dan Fylstra
  • A Minifloppy Interface 114 David M. Allen
• Background
  • CIE Net: A Design for a Network of Community Information Exchanges - Part 1, The Beginning 14 Mike Wilber
  • Some Musings on Boolean Algebra 25 Dan Bunce, Art Schwartz
  • Personal Computers in a Distributed Communications Networks 80 Jeff Steinwedel
  • The Brains of Men & Machines, Part 2: How the Brain Controls Outputs 84 Ernest W. Kent
  • Programming Entomology 162 Gary McGath
  • A Simple Digital Filter 168 Robert D. Grappel
• Nucleus
  • In This BYTE 4
  • About the Cover 5
  • Complete ASCII 19 David M. Ciemiewicz
  • Letters 20
  • Languages Forum: The Case for a "Compiler Interpreter" 30 Richard Rodman
  • Languages Forum: APL Character Representations 30 David Sloan
  • Letter from the Publisher 60
  • BYTE's Bugs 93
    • Entomological Archives (June 1976)
    • Bugged Tidbit (October 1977)
    • Random Errors (November 1977)
    • A Sligthly Sour SWEET 16 (November 1977)
  • Ask BYTE 126
  • BYTE's Bits 127
    • The Future of Personal Computing at COMPCON 78
    • A Course
    • A Note for Robot Experimenters
  • Clubs, Newsletters 129
  • Languages Forum: Comments on APL Character Generators 134 Olav Naess
  • Languages Forum: Baking Baker 135 Shal Farley
  • Languages Forum: Reactions to Previous Comments 159 Leigh Janes
  • Technical Forum: Measuring Program Size 167 Stefan T. Dobrowolski
  • Technical Forum: Some Plotting Comments 172 T. P. Roberts
  • Technical Forum: A Standard for Writing Standards 175 David A. Wallace
  • New York Notes 178 Chris Morgan
  • What's New? 182, 200
  • Classified Ads 206
  • BOMB 208
  • Reader Service 208

Also: Ad: "6800/2 IS HERE"

Volumn 3 number 1, January 1978

July-Dec 1977, 6 issues

• $19 music interface
• 8 channel DVM
• Using the Polymorphics video interface
• floppy disk tutorial
• LISP
• relative addressing for the 8080
• Intercept JR
• Use a UART for serial IO
• 6502 personal computer - Steve Wozniak !!
• memory mapped io
• using interrupts for real time clocks
• NIM
• APL Interpreter
• Space War
• 8080 Simulator
• C, a language for microcomputers?
• Mastermind (game)
• Othello
• Scortos Music Language
• Noval 760
• Tiny Assembler
• Cosmac VIP
• 8 digit hexidecimal readout
• controlling small dc motors
• computerize your model railroad
• TV oscilloscope
• Speech recognition
• give your micro a megabyte
• condensed reference chart for the 6800
• Steve Ciarcia

Dec 76, March,April,June 77

• SR-52 (TI Calculator)
• Universal Touring Machine
• Signal processing for bar code scanning
• stretch that 6800 clock
• AC-30 cassette interface
• Processor Technology VDM-1
• Inexpensive joystick interfaces
• SWTPC PR-40 printer
• multiplex your digital led displays
• KIM goes to the moon
• Tom Pittman's Tiny Basic
• software controlled 1200bps tape system
• Tiny assembler
• Navigation with the mini-o
• 8008
• Steve Ciarcia
• Interfacing the Selectric keyboard printer
• Artificial Intelligence
• 6800 Selectric IO
• Guide to Baudot Machines

VOL 2 NUMBER 12 December 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 11 November 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 10 October 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 9 September 1977 (got it)

• Computer Performance Music.pdf

VOL 2 NUMBER 8 August 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 7 July 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 6 June 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 5 May 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 4 April 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 3 March 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 2 February 1977 (got it)

VOL 2 NUMBER 1 January 1977 (got it)

• Foreground
  • Making Hash with Tables 18 Terry Dollhoff
  • How to Drive a Teletype without a UART 32 Gregory C. Jewell
  • Saturation Recording's Not All That Hard 34 David M. Allen
  • The Built-In Logic Tester 82 Kurt W. Christener
  • Build the "Coffee Can Special" EROM Eraser 91 Lawrence Burbey Jr.
  • Separate Your Sync 92 David Rosen
  • Using Interrupts to Speed Up an ELM 106 G. H. Gable
• Background
  • Watts Inside a Power Supply 42 Gary Liming
  • Pick Up Basic by PROM Bootstraps 50 Jim Kreitner
  • Black Friday 56 Robert W. Baker
  • Types and Uses of Direct Access Storage 60 Curt Hill
  • SYS 8½.. Your Own Executive Commands 66 Willard I. Nico
  • Computer Models for Board Games 78 Russell R. Yost Jr.
  • A Computer Hobbyist Club Survey 116 David Caulkins
• Nucleus
  • In This BYTE 2
  • Editorial: The Appliance Computer, Circa 1977 4 Carl Helmers
  • About the Cover 11
  • Update on Machine Readable Printed Programs 11
  • Book Reviews 11
    • Computer Power and Human Reason: from Judgement to Calculation Peter Travisano
  • Letters 16
  • What's New 72, 84
    • A Hard Copy Gem (Anderson Jacobson Inc. AJ 841)
    • Apply Your Computer's BASIC (Scientific Research Instruments)
    • SWTP 6800 BASIC (Southwest Technical Products Corp.)
    • A Classy New Microcomputer System (EDC Corp. MicroMind)
    • Don't Wince at This Fantom (Wintek Corp. Fantom II)
    • PDP-8 Cross Assembers from Microprocessors (Sierra Digital Systems X8)
    • Want to Trun an S100 Bus Computer into a Number Cruncher? Use This Hardware Floating Point Board (North Star Computers FPB Model A)
    • Applications Oriented Computer Terminal (Hewlett-Packard HP-3070A)
    • An 8080 Subroutine Utility Package (Pragmatic Systems UT1)
    • Paper Tape Holder (CV Spinks)
    • Software New Product: BASIC, ETC (Binary Systems Inc)
    • The $600 Floppy Disk Drive (Ohio Scientific Systems OSI 470)
    • Watch for These in the Parts Markets (AVX Ceramics)
    • A "Super" Star Trek game in BASIC... (David Michell)
    • It's All a Plot to Enable You to Draw with Your Computer (Sylvanhills Laboratory Inc DFT-1 and DFT-2)
    • Active Filter Activities... (National Semiconductor AF100)
    • A Pointer (Vector Electronics Slit-N-Wrap)
    • The SOL Source (Processor Technology SOL Terminal Computer)
    • A Patented Logic Trainer Computer (LJ Broder Enterprises)
    • Attention Educators (And Everybody Else Intersetd in Computers (Terak 8510)
    • Plasma Displays, Anyone? (Burroughs)
  • Product Description: Tutorial Training Computer 76
  • Software Bug of the Month: Answer to Software Bug 6 93 W. Douglas Maurer
  • Product Description: OSI 94 Robert W. Baker
  • Classfied Ads 96
  • BYTE's Bugs 97
    • Identification Ambiguities?
    • Further RS-232C Comments
    • A Glitch Pair in Close Orbit (September)
    • And, Notes on Coversion
  • BYTE's Bits 99, 104, 130
    • Call For Papers: ICCH/3
    • What Is It, 2
    • New Directions for Distributers
    • A Business Services Time Sharing Service
    • Consumber Notes... Collectors Items
    • Your Friendly Computer Store... The American Dream
    • Wonder About PDP-11s?
    • APL Enthusiasts Take Note
  • Some Candid Shots from PC 76 100 Marj Kirk
  • Kil O'Byte 114
  • Clubs, Newsletters 115
  • Clubs, Newsletters Directory 119
  • Ask BYTE 140
  • BOMB 144
  • Reader Service 144

VOL 1 NUMBER 16 December 1976 (got it)

• Foreground
  • The Cybertecnic Crayon: A Low Cost Approach to Human Interaction with Color Graphics 24 Thomas A. Dwyer
  • The Cybertecnic Crayon - Using Computer Graphics as a Mediumn for Artistic Expression: A Portfolio of Explorations 139 Margot Critchfield
  • The Buried God in the SR-52 30 Clif Penn
  • Stretch That 6800 Clock 42 Jerry Henshaw
  • Don't Waste Memory Space (One Way to Squeeze fat Out of Text Strings 58 Robert W. Baker
  • Signal Processing for Optical Bar Code Scanning 77 Frederick L. Merkowitz
  • The Designer's Eye View of the AC-30 98 Gary Kay
  • A Universal Turing Machine 114 Jonathan K. Millen
• Background
  • Samples of Machine Readable Printed Software - PAPERBYTES 12 Walter Banks, Roger Sanderson
  • Software for Reading Bar Codes 18 Keith Regli
  • Product Review: Processor Technology VDM-1 36 D. Anderson
  • Do It Yourself Weather Predictions 62 Michael R. Firth
  • Building the AC-30 Cassette Interface 110 Gary Liming
• Nucleus
  • In This BYTE 2
  • Caught By Surprise 6 Carl Helmers
  • Clubs, Newsletters 48
  • Letters 50
  • BYTE's Bugs 54
    • BYTE's Ooooops... Correction to "If Only Sam Morse Could See Us Now" (October 1976)
    • Eugenics in Engineering - Correction to TTL inputs in July 1976 BYTE, page 100
  • Ask BYTE 56
  • What's New? 60, 87
    • Here It Is, a Builder's Eye View of the Lear Sieger "Dumb Terminal" Kit - ADM-3
    • Low Priced Disk System for Altair/IMSAIs: The North Star Micro-Disk System
    • DEC's LSI-11 Lexicon, Defined
    • KIM Had Twins: MOS Technology's KIM-2 and KIM-3
    • Attention Educators: Take a Look at the Texas Instruments Microprocessor Learning System
    • Cromenco: If You Z-1, You Z Them All?
    • Use a High Resolution Text Display: Matrox Electornic Systems' MYX-2480
    • A System Product with Software Orientation: American Microsystems AMI 6800 microcomputer development center
  • About the Cover...and the Contest 70
  • State of the Art Disk Technology 86
    The information in this feature is based upon materials supplied by Shugart Associates.
  • Software Bug of the Month 6 91 W. Douglas Maurer
  • Desk Top Wonders 92
    Shooting Stars (for the SR-52 and PC-100 Printer) Craig A. Pearce
  • The First West Coast Computer Faire 95
    Introduction for the fair to be held at April 1977 and call for papers.
  • BYTE's Bits 60, 96
    DECUS Fall Meeting; Come to the Boston IC Party?; No Back BYTEs; AFIPS NCC Proceeedings Are Now Available
  • Kil O'Byte 108
  • Book Reviews 120
  • The Technical Forum: A Proposal for a Universal Prototyping Bus Structure 128 David Washburn
  • Programming Quickies 132
    6800 Anti-Wipeout Procedure
  • BOMB 144
  • Reader's Service 144

VOL 1 NUMBER 15 November 1976 (got it)

"It's more fun than crayons"

• "Build the beer budget graphics interface"
• "add this graphics display to your system"
• "an enterprising dispay device"
• "make your next peripheral a real eye opener"
• "build this video display terminal"
• "what is APL?"
• "A tip for using wiring pencils"
• "some graphics background information"
• A proposed standard for publishing binary date in machine readable form
• the address space saturation program
• outstanding computer hobbyist
• kil o' byte
• What's new?, description: MERLIN video interface

144 pages total.

VOL 1 NUMBER 14 October 1976 (got it)

• Build this mathematical function unit part I
• Morse Code (6800 kit, code station data handler)
• Computer versus hand sent Morse Code
• Homebrewery
• Keep Pace with Times

VOL 1 NUMBER 13 September 1976 (got it)

• Foreground
  • Build This Mathematical Function Unit - Part 1: Hardware 26 R. Scott Guthrie
  • Randomize Your Programming 36 Robert D. Grappel
  • A BASIC Star Trek Trainer 40 Gerald H. Herd
  • How to do a Number of Conversions 50 James Brown
  • The Circuit for Z-80s 62 Robert Suding
  • A Flameless IC Recycling Trick 104 Jonathan Bondy, Ralph Droms
  • AMSAT 8080 Standard Debug Monitor: AMS80 Version 2 108 Richard C. Allen, Joe Kasser
• Background
  • Are You an Author? 16

    Are you the proud author of a piece of hobbyist software? If so, you are in the same class as the author of a novel, a play or any other kind of salable writing.

    Calvin N. Mooers

  • The MSC 8080+ Microprocessor as a Personal System 44 Ken Barbier
  • Microprocessor Update: SC/MP Fills a Gap 76 Robert W. Baker
  • Machine Language Programming for the "8008" and similar microcomputers - Chapter 3 84 Nat Wadsworth
• Nucleus
  • In This BYTE 4
  • Come On, Come All! 6
    • NCC 1976 Carl Helmers
  • Letters 12
  • Software Bug of the Month 4 61 W. Douglas Maurer
  • BYTE's Bits 73
    • Attention: Southern California Readers, Educators
    • Microcomputer Interfacing Workshop
    • Functional Specification: Altair Bus Driver
  • What's New? 74, 81
    • OSI 400 System
    • Advance Information: Computalker CT-1 Speech Synthesizer
    • Catalog for Electronics Designing and Testing
    • Right from the Source: Intercept Jr
    • Software New Product: 8080 TRACE Program
    • OEMs and Kit Makers Take Note: TP-3120 Printer
    • A 6800 Evaluation Board - Plus EROM Programmer and Tiny BASIC!
    • More Tiny BASIC - Doctor Dobbs Is Really Moving
    • Get Up and Running Quickly with This Self Contained Package: Expander-68
    • The IMSAI Floppy Disk Subsystem
    • A PROM Resident 8080 Assembler
    • A Lab Computer, Anyone? - MiniMicro Designer
    • Attention: LSI-11 Hackers
    • Tutorial Computer Systems: UC 1800
    • Want to Get Unsual Tools?
  • Classified Ads 92
  • Clubs, Newsletters 98
  • Programming Quickies 124
    • 8 Bit Fractional Multiplication
  • BOMB 128
  • Reader's Service 128

Vol 1 Number 12 August 1976 (got it)

• Foreground
  • True Confessions: How I Relate to KIM 44 Yogesh M. Gupta
  • Build a TV Readout Device for Your Microprocessor 66 Robert Suding
  • Interfacing the 60 mA Current Loop 96 Walter S. King
• Background
  • What Do You Do With a Video Disk? 6 Martin Buchanan
  • Friends, Humans, Contryrobots: Lend Me Lend Your Ears 16 Lloyd Rice
  • The Time Has Come to Talk 26 Wirt Atmar
  • Microprocessor Update: Zilog Z80 34 Burt Hashizume
  • Machine Language Programming for the "8008" and similar microprocessors - Chapter 2 40 Nat Wadsworth
  • Jack and the Machine Talk (or, The Making of an Assembler) 52 One day in 1975, Jack finally had it with machine language. Robert D. Grappel, Jack Hemenway
  • What's an I²L (I squared L)? 84 Terry Steeden
• Nucleus
  • In This BYTE 2
  • Some Notes on Clubs 2 Carl Helmers What's New? 50
    • Don't Waste Time Loading from Tape ... Put a Chunk of EROM into Memory Address Space
    • Parallel Interfaced Audio Cassette Driver
    • Make Hard Copies With This Printer
    • IO Board With ROM Software
    • Calculator of the Month Club?
    • Sphere Graduates and Goes to Work for Businesses
    • The IMSAI 8080
    • Don't Let This One SC/MPer Away
    • Use This for the 'Ship's Console' of Your ENTERPRISE
    • Burn 2708 EPROMs with This Programmers
    • Here's Pair of Hardware Debugging Tools of Note
    • Attention: ALTAIR/IMSAI/MicroALTAIR Harware Hackers
    • Build This Printer Kit
    • OEM Floppy Systems Kit
    • It's About Time!
    • The AMT 2560
    • A First Briefcase Computer
  • Book Review 74
  • BYTE's Bugs 76
  • Update to PROM Programmer (May 1976), MATCH program (June 1976), Build the BIT BOFFER (March 1976) and page 94 of the June issue.
  • Classfield Ads 77
  • Software Bug of the Month 3 81 W. Douglas Maurer
  • Systems of Note 88

    Here is a second example of BYTE's Systems of Note feature. The purpose of Systems of Note is to document what kinds of systems are being developed and utilzed by our readers, and how they are viewing the computer systems field as reflected in the choices of hardware and software componets. As an example of another system, here are my impressions of Roger Amidon's rather advanced shop. Each reader whose system description is submitted and publsed for this feature will receive an honorarium of $25 as BYTE's contribution to help further the state of the art.. Carl Helmers

  • Functional Specifications 95
  • Clubs, Newsletters 100
  • Tool Box Answers 126
  • BOMB 128
  • Reader's Service 128

VOL 1 NUMBER 11 July 1976 (wanted)

• Foreground
  • Coincident Current Ferrite Core Memories 6 James R. Jones
  • Explore an 8080 with Educator-8080 22 Charles P. Howerton
  • The "Ignorance Is Bliss" Television Drive Circuit 38 Ken Barbier
  • Why Wait? Build A Fast Casette Interface 46 Robert Suding
• Background
  • Assembling a Sphere 18 Bruce A. Anderson
  • Machine Language Programming for the "8080" and similar microcomputers - Chapter 1 30 Nat Wadsworth
  • Put The "Do Everything" Chip in Your Next Design 40 Robert W. Baker
  • Surplus Electronics in Tokyo and Manila 54 Michael N. Hayes
  • Make Your Own Printed Circuits 58 James Hogenson
  • A Plot Is Incomplete Without Characters 64 Richard J. Lerseth

  Nucleus

  • In This Byte 2
  • The Trend Towards Hassle Free Computing 4 Carl Helmers
  • Tool Box 39 Robert W. Baker
  • BYTE's Bits 44, 79
    • Election Program
    • New Hope For Computer Phreaques
    • Some Electronics Industry News
    • Software Availabiliy Note: Perspective Plot Package (in ANSI FORTRAN Language)
  • Good Grief! 74
  • What's New? 76, 102
    • Itty Bitty Computer's Tiny BASIC for the 6800
    • Will You Look at That?
    • But It's New to Me
  • Software Bug of the Month 2 81 W. Douglas Maurer
  • What Happened at Trenton May 2 83
  • Clubs, Newsletters 86
  • Letters 90
  • Ask BYTE 95
  • Reader's Service 96
  • Classified Ads 98
  • BYTE's Bugs 100
  • Patching the Biorhyrhm Porgram (April)
  • How to Do It Better - Controlling External Devices With Hobbyist Computers (April)
  • Book Reviews 104
  • BOMB 112

VOL 1 NUMBER 10 June 1976 (bought)

• Building an M6800 microcomputer MIKBUG
• Building a TV display
• Interact with an ELM
• SCELBAL
• Small Business Accounting System
• PDP-8E / Intersil IM6100
• Game of Life in color

VOL 1 NUMBER 9 May 1976 (bought)

• PROMS
• Octal Front Panel
• Shooting Stars
• Build a serial ascii word generator
• A Date with KIM (KIM-1 microcomputer trainer)
• PDP-8E / Intersil IM6100

VOL 1 NUMBER 8 April 1976 (bought)

• Biorythm for computers
• Controlling external interfaces with hobbyist computers
• Interface an ascii keyboard to a 60ma tty loop
• IO Strobes for the Altair 8800
• TI SR-52
• TI TMS9900 (later used in the TI99/4A)

VOL 1 NUMBER 7 March 1976 (bought)

• Digital Data on cassette recorders
• Compleat (sic) Tape Cassette Interface
• Microprocessor update CP1600
• What's in a video display terminal

VOL 1 Issue 6, February 1976 (got it)

• Build a TTL Pulse catcher
• Dressing up front panels
• processing algebraic expressions
• The new Altair 680
• How to save the bytes
• TV Color Graphics (Don Lancaster - a famous article)
• Could a computer take over?
• Keyboard modification

VOL 1 NUMBER 5 January 1976 (got it)

• Let there be Light Pens
• The Game of Life part 4
• Golf Handicapping
• Intel 8080 op code table
• Total Kitchen Information System
• Mini-Microcomputer system
• Wire wrapping
• CT-1024 kit

Vol 1 Issue 4, December 1975 (got it)

• Powerless IC test clip
• The Game of Life part 3
• Build a SWTPc 6800
• Can your computer tell time?
• Logic probes
• HP-65
• Assembling an Altair 8800

VOL 1 NUMBER 3 November 1975 (got it)

• Ins and Outs of volitile memory
• Computers and Amateur Radio
• Son of Motorola, or the $20 CPU Chip
• Hexpawn
• Monitor 8 1/2
• Versitile read only memory programmer

VOL 1 NUMBER 2 October 1975 (got it)

• Build a Graphics Display
• TV Interface (Don Lancaster - very famous article!)
• NOVAL assembler
• Kluge Harp
• Buck Rogers and the Home Computer
• Game of LIFE part 2

VOL 1 NUMBER 1 September 1975 (wanted)

• Which Microprocessor is right for you?
• Cassette Interface - Your key to inexpensive bulk memory
• Assembling your assembler
• Can you use these surplus keyboards?
• RGS 008A Micrcomputer kit
• Game of LIFE

James Newton Says:

I have:

• Volumn 1 #2-10, 12-16 and "Best of Byte Volumn 1" which covers most content in the first 12 issues.
  There are 16 issues in the first volumn spanning Sep 75 thru Dec 76
• Volumn 2 (1977) #1 thru 12
• Volumn 3 (1978) #1 thru 12
• Volumn 4 (1979) #1 thru 12

James Newton Says: " Wish list:

• Volumn 1, #1
• Volumn 1, #11

"

James Newton Says:

Selling:

• Volume 9 (1984) #7 (July)
• Volume 4 (1979) #1 (January), #2 (Febuary) x2, #3 (March), #5 (May), #6 (June), #7 (July), #8 (August), #9 (September)
• Volume 3 (1978) #2 (Feburary), #9 (September), #10 (October)
• Volume 2 (1977) #8 (August)

Comments:

• jayranade@aol.com /techref/article/byte/I have every Issue of Byte from September, 1975 till December 1992. It was my reference when I wrote (with Allen Nash) the Best of Byte which was published in November, 1993. Mew York Times original review in 1994 is also included. Jay Ranade James Newton of James Newton's Massmind replies: I've looked through the Best of Byte and you did a great job. I do think there were some more of the very early articles that were not included, probably for very good reasons, but which are still valuable because they teach basic concepts that apply today. I wish the old Byte's were avilable online.