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Around 1985, Byte started an online service called BIX (Byte Information eXchange) which was a text-only BBS-style site running on the CoSy conferencing software, [21] also used by McGraw-Hill internally. [22] Access was via local dial-in or, for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were $13/month for the account ...
BYTE staff and writers such as Jerry Pournelle were active on the service, [8] and invitations for further discussion were printed with many articles in the magazine. Access was via local dial-in or for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were initially $13/month for the account and $1/hour for X.25 access.
The system relied heavily on use of a mouse before it was common to have one and was an attempt to make the desktop operating system relatively affordable, according to BYTE Magazine.
Bix was also a BBS and website sponsored by Byte Magazine (BIX = "Byte Information Exchange"), rather like a social media site before such became popular. The website survived for a short time after the magazine ceased publication in 2001 (there was a July issue, but no August issue that year).
Wayne Sanger Green II (September 3, 1922 – September 13, 2013) [1] [2] was an American publisher, writer, and consultant. Green was editor of CQ magazine before he went on to found 73, 80 Micro, Byte, CD Review, Cold Fusion, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN, InCider, and Pico, as well as publishing books and running Instant Software.
Virginia Williamson (also Virginia Londner Green and Virginia Peschke) was the co-founder, owner and publisher of Byte magazine. She founded the magazine in 1975 together with her ex-husband, Wayne Green the founder/publisher of the amateur radio magazine 73. [1] [2] She sold the magazine to McGraw-Hill in 1979, [3] but remained publisher until ...
Wayne Green was the founder and publisher of BYTE magazine, one of the influential microcomputer magazines of the 1970s. After putting out four issues, in November 1975 Green came to work and found that his ex-wife and the rest of the Byte magazine staff had moved out of his office and had taken the January issue with them. [2]
Synapse Group, Inc. is a multichannel marketing company. Synapse is also the largest consumer magazine distributor in the United States, [3] with access to over 700 magazine titles from major publishers, including Hearst Corporation, Condé Nast Publications, Meredith Corporation, and Time Inc. Synapse attracts subscribers for these publications by working through a number of non-traditional ...