Byte Jan 87 retrospective.

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Fri May 16 10:47:12 1997

>
> > This sounds like a lot of content, but there are 86 full page
> > ads. 43 column adds which comes out to about 14 more pages of ads. Out
> > of 201 pages in the technical section 100 pages are ads. This is not too
> > bad, but for a magazine which was at one time highly technical, it is
> > pretty sad. Tot total number of pages in this issue was 488. How many pages
> > of technical content does it [BYTE] have now?
> >
> >
> >
> IMHO, close to zero.
>
Last time I read Byte (about a year or so now), it seemed to be not only
a shadow of its former self. . .but also a weak version of one of the PC
Computing type magazines . . .
Received on Fri May 16 1997 - 10:47:12 BST