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Wow, great! This magazine is precisely as old as I am. I wasn't born with a lisp, just a fondness for it (and now I know why).

by huffer 9y ago

protomyth 9y ago
This, Creative Computing, Dr Dobbs, and Antic were my monthly computer education. I was a little ticked with what languages my Atari 400 with 48k (3rd party board) could run. I did dream a lot of some of the machines in the ads.
- huffer 9y ago
  Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both). Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly code examples for the Z-80 Spectrum; I wish I had this magazine back in the day... A thing I noticed: so many practical examples and code excerpts; I also spotted some math, sporting a Riemann integral no less :) - today's magazines are kindergarten-level by comparison. Of course, today's magazines are not aimed to the technical hobbyist anymore, so it's understandable... Btw: who are today's magazines targeting? Second question: what magazines?!
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- Angostura 9y ago
  Mine (in the UK) was Personal Computer World. Though I snapped up Byte when I saw it in the shops
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    I would rather go through Computer Shopper. :)
    - nocman 9y ago
      Ah the memories. 100 pages of content and 1100 pages of ads. :D
      - pjmlp 9y ago
        Quite true, my main reasons were the Atari, Acorn and Amiga sections, and the British humour in many articles.
- WalterBright 9y ago
  I loved the quirky illustrations in the early Creative Computing mags.
  - vram22 9y ago
    BYTE had some great cover illustrations too, and IIRC, even some of the articles had great diagrams or drawings. IIRC there was an artist called (Robert?) Tinney who did many of the best looking and most famous covers, including maybe for the Smalltalk issue - which I think had a multicolored balloon on the cover - just searched and this is it: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/597/1*9qr-I3aJLr0IrM256gVIvg.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/597/1*9qr-I3aJLr0IrM256g...
    - vram22 9y ago
      Yes, his name was Robert Tinney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tinney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tinney
- dugmartin 9y ago
  My favorite was Micro Cornucopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia). My local bookstore carried it and I eagerly awaited it every month. I was bummed when it shutdown in 1990 but by then I was in college and had real systems to play with.

Wow, great! This magazine is precisely as old as I am. I wasn't born with a lisp, just a fondness for it (and now I know why).

by huffer 9y ago

Wow, great! This magazine is precisely as old as I am. I wasn't born with a lisp, just a fondness for it (and now I know why).

protomyth 9y ago

This, Creative Computing, Dr Dobbs, and Antic were my monthly computer education. I was a little ticked with what languages my Atari 400 with 48k (3rd party board) could run. I did dream a lot of some of the machines in the ads.

huffer 9y ago
Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both). Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly code examples for the Z-80 Spectrum; I wish I had this magazine back in the day... A thing I noticed: so many practical examples and code excerpts; I also spotted some math, sporting a Riemann integral no less :) - today's magazines are kindergarten-level by comparison. Of course, today's magazines are not aimed to the technical hobbyist anymore, so it's understandable... Btw: who are today's magazines targeting? Second question: what magazines?!
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Angostura 9y ago
Mine (in the UK) was Personal Computer World. Though I snapped up Byte when I saw it in the shops
- pjmlp 9y ago
  I would rather go through Computer Shopper. :)
  - nocman 9y ago
    Ah the memories. 100 pages of content and 1100 pages of ads. :D
    - pjmlp 9y ago
      Quite true, my main reasons were the Atari, Acorn and Amiga sections, and the British humour in many articles.
WalterBright 9y ago
I loved the quirky illustrations in the early Creative Computing mags.
- vram22 9y ago
  BYTE had some great cover illustrations too, and IIRC, even some of the articles had great diagrams or drawings. IIRC there was an artist called (Robert?) Tinney who did many of the best looking and most famous covers, including maybe for the Smalltalk issue - which I think had a multicolored balloon on the cover - just searched and this is it: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/597/1*9qr-I3aJLr0IrM256gVIvg.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/597/1*9qr-I3aJLr0IrM256g...
  - vram22 9y ago
    Yes, his name was Robert Tinney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tinney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tinney
dugmartin 9y ago
My favorite was Micro Cornucopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia). My local bookstore carried it and I eagerly awaited it every month. I was bummed when it shutdown in 1990 but by then I was in college and had real systems to play with.