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Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. [ 1 ] Byte started in 1975, shortly after the first personal computers appeared as kits advertised in the back of electronics magazines.
Tinney created over 100 pieces of artwork for the magazine covers. [5] His artwork for Byte was done by hand and consisted of drawn illustrations with tissue paper, oil painting, and designer wash and airbrush. [6] Tinney would later sell limited edition prints of his Byte magazine covers to the general public; accepting orders on his website.
Paul Terrell opened up the first Byte Shop at 1063 West El Camino Real in Mountain View, California, on December 8, 1975. [2] The store was named directly after the influential microcomputer magazine Byte, founded three months prior to the Byte Shop. [3] Terrell was joined in the foundation of the Byte Shop with his business partner Boyd Wilson.
ComputorEdge Magazine was first published on May 16, 1983 as The Byte Buyer in San Diego, California. It was one of the first local free distribution magazines in the United States devoted to the microcomputer. In 1988, in a dispute with the now defunct Byte Magazine, the magazine name was changed to ComputorEdge.
Kilobaud Microcomputing was a magazine dedicated to the computer homebrew hobbyists from 1977 to 1983. [1] It was one of the three influential computer magazines of the 1970s, along with BYTE and Creative Computing.
Steve Ciarcia is an American embedded control systems engineer.He became popular through his Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE magazine, and later through the Circuit Cellar magazine that he published.
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 ...
BYTE in the October 1984 issue announced BYTEnet, "a project in computer conferencing", with 200 beta testers who received free service during the "experiment". [2] The magazine formally announced BIX in the June 1985 issue, offering an introductory sign-up fee of $25, and evening and weekend charges of $6 per hour of connect time: the service offered direct numbers in San Francisco, Los ...