Magazines

From: David C. Jenner <djenner_at_halcyon.com>
Date: Thu Feb 1 21:49:04 2001

Hmmm...

Is it coincidence that we have a "Mark GREEN" here who didn't
look up the original sources?

Byte, Issue #1: Copyright 1975 by Green Publishing, Inc.

Page 9: from the Publisher...
        how BYTE started
        continued to
Page 96: (signed) Wayne Green

Better brush up on your family history!

Dave

Mark Green wrote:
>
> > Where the hell were you guys at the time???????
> >
> >
> > Kilobaud did not become Byte, nor vice-versa. Wayne Green started
> > Kilobaud after his ex got Byte in a divorce settlement.
>
> Where did you get this from?? Wayne Green was never involved
> with Byte. Kilobaud (actually the ham magaize) and Byte were
> competitors from the very beginning. I worked with a number
> of the Byte people in the early years and I never heard this
> story (I heard a lot of other interesting ones).
>
> >
> > He also had a Ham magazine.
> >
>
> Number of early computer articles appeared in that magazine, but
> for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. Wayne Green
> was quite a controversial character (no relation) at the time. He
> was well known for slaming other magazines for real or imagined
> slights.
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
> McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
> Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
> University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
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