old magazines

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 15:01:09 1998

At 12:04 PM 8/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Old computer magazines are another passion of mine. I a large
>bookshelf full of BYTE magazine, from around 1976 to 1993, and

As had been reported here in May when it happened, Byte is no more,
but the post-game commentary has begun. See Tom Halfhill's
analysis at <http://www.wenet.net/~halfhill/bytefaq.html>,
he was an editor there. Love 'im or hate 'im, Pournelle can't
stop talking about it or anything else at
<http://www.jerrypournelle.com/fiasco.html>.

I agree with Halfhill's assessment in general, that Byte was
perhaps the only general computer magazine as compared to so many
other platform-chauvinistic rags. On the other hand, in the last
few years, many of my copies of Byte went unread.

- John
Received on Mon Aug 31 1998 - 15:01:09 BST

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