Post by thread:[OT] Byte Magazine Nostalgia

It is apparent that many here have some nostalgia for old Byte magazines. I decorate my home office with prints by Robert Tinney, who used to do the artwork for Byte back in the pre-windows days. He still offers many prints of the works used by Byte magazine. http://www.tinney.net should get you there. The T-Shirt selection is VERY limited nowadays, but the selection of prints is pretty good. I'm proud to own a few myself. Lyle

The early days of Byte and personal computing. Robert Tinney is a great cover artist. The personal computing world has changed. I remember spending a late evening in Carl's livingroom going through several hundred articles that were submitted for publication. Many were for small code fragments (in assembler), we were at one point stacking all the binary to hex ascii articles in one pile. I have the cover master for April 1980 Byte framed on a wall in our offices. Getting the simplest working computers together was difficult and expensive. The good old days were not so good. The price of 5" floppy disk drive (100K bytes or so) then buys a 100G USB drive now. The early shows were fun in Trenton and Atlantic City. The Itty Bitty Machine company had a booth beside the other IBM at one show. Fun times were had by all. w.. Hazelwood Lyle wrote: {Quote hidden}> It is apparent that many here have some nostalgia for old Byte magazines. > > I decorate my home office with prints by Robert Tinney, who used to do the > artwork for Byte back in the pre-windows days. He still offers many prints > of the works used by Byte magazine. > > http://www.tinney.net should get you there. The T-Shirt selection is VERY limited > nowadays, but the selection of prints is pretty good. I'm proud to own a few > myself. > > Lyle

On 4/27/05, Walter Banks <spam_OUTwalterTakeThisOuTbytecraft.com> wrote: > > The early shows were fun in Trenton and Atlantic City. The Itty Bitty > Machine company had a booth beside the other IBM at one show. > Fun times were had by all. The Trenton Computer Festival is still going, but it's not what it used to be. My wife and I went on April 16th, and it was about 45% fleamarket crud (a mixture of corporate networking upgrade cast-offs, people cleaning out their garage, low-end computer dealers who couldn't afford a table in the main vendors room, and a few actual interesting people selling stuff), 50% computer vendors in the main room (the same stuff you'd see at any "computer show"), and 5% historic exhibits (old-time radios and TVs, and an exhibit of old computers -- a FULL, WORKING DEC PDP8 system, a man showing his collection of WORKING "antique" computers (including a SOL-20, Challenger 4P, TRS-80 model II, and more), a collection of PDA's from before the Apple Newton, and other such goodies). I think the historic exhibits were the best part of the show, though I did pick up some "standard" items (network hub and cables, etc) for a decent price. BTW: While I'm waxing nostalgic, if anyone has any *OLD* (the older the better, pre-1990 is best!) "shareware" CD-ROMs, please contact me privately. Thanks, Bill -- Psst... Hey, you... Buddy... Want a kitten? straycatblues.petfinder.org

I seem to recall very few pre-1990 CDROMs of shareware. I'm guessing this is because the drives were still really expensive at that point. I do have some from 92-93 region though. Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams On 4/27/05, William Couture <.....bcoutureKILLspam@spam@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW: While I'm waxing nostalgic, if anyone has any *OLD* (the older the > better, pre-1990 is best!) "shareware" CD-ROMs, please contact me privately.

On 4/28/05, Josh Koffman <joshybearKILLspamgmail.com> wrote: > I seem to recall very few pre-1990 CDROMs of shareware. I'm guessing > this is because the drives were still really expensive at that point. > I do have some from 92-93 region though. Could I persuade you to make copies for me? What would you like in return? Bill -- Psst... Hey, you... Buddy... Want a kitten? straycatblues.petfinder.org

Heh I'd have to find them...I believe I have them in Winnipeg, and I won't be there for another couple of months. I suppose you want them for sentimental value, so just pointing you to a download site would be pointless eh? Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams On 4/28/05, William Couture <.....bcoutureKILLspam.....gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/28/05, Josh Koffman <EraseMEjoshybearspam_OUTTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: > > > I seem to recall very few pre-1990 CDROMs of shareware. I'm guessing > > this is because the drives were still really expensive at that point. > > I do have some from 92-93 region though. > > Could I persuade you to make copies for me? What would you like > in return?

On 4/28/05, Josh Koffman <joshybearspam_OUTgmail.com> wrote: > Heh I'd have to find them...I believe I have them in Winnipeg, and I > won't be there for another couple of months. I suppose you want them > for sentimental value, so just pointing you to a download site would > be pointless eh? Not sentimental, so a download site would be fine. I've already browsed cd.textfiles.com, and have a few more to look over. Besides "collecting" and making old software available (http://www.datapackrat.com), I'm still using an "ancient" C compiler for stuff (like my programs at http://www.picemulator.com). I've recently tracked down the source code to the compiler (Yah Google! Yah Superpages!) and have permission to open the source code. So, among other things, I'm looking for other programs written in the compiler, and "old" copies of the compiler -- while I use the DOS version, there were also Mac and CP/M-86 "flavors" as well. Bill -- Psst... Hey, you... Buddy... Want a kitten? straycatblues.petfinder.org

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, William Couture wrote: {Quote hidden}> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:33:28 -0400 > From: William Couture <@spam@bcoutureKILLspamgmail.com> > Reply-To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <KILLspampiclistKILLspammit.edu> > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <RemoveMEpiclistTakeThisOuTmit.edu> > Subject: Re: [OT] Byte Magazine Nostalgia > > On 4/28/05, Josh Koffman <spamBeGonejoshybearspamBeGonegmail.com> wrote: > >> Heh I'd have to find them...I believe I have them in Winnipeg, and I >> won't be there for another couple of months. I suppose you want them >> for sentimental value, so just pointing you to a download site would >> be pointless eh? > > Not sentimental, so a download site would be fine. I've already > browsed cd.textfiles.com, and have a few more to look over. > > Besides "collecting" and making old software available (http://www.datapackrat.com), > I'm still using an "ancient" C compiler for stuff (like my programs at > http://www.picemulator.com). > > I've recently tracked down the source code to the compiler (Yah Google! > Yah Superpages!) and have permission to open the source code. So, among > other things, I'm looking for other programs written in the compiler, and "old" > copies of the compiler -- while I use the DOS version, there were also Mac > and CP/M-86 "flavors" as well. I don't know what you are doing but bds C for CP/M is available open source and runs on CP/M emulators inside 'modern' PCs (preferrably running Linux or *BSD). Relevant url: http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html Peter

> On 4/27/05, William Couture <TakeThisOuTbcoutureEraseMEspam_OUTgmail.com> wrote: >> BTW: While I'm waxing nostalgic, if anyone has any *OLD* (the older >> the >> better, pre-1990 is best!) "shareware" CD-ROMs, please contact me >> privately. I believe you can still get (buy) copies of the SIMTEL20 shareware/etc collection, at least for MSDOS. WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL was perhaps the very first shareware collection, designed as a central repository for free CPM software for the army's use on their PCs. A rather good idea, started about 1982 or so, and decommissioned in 1993, at the point where it had over 2Gbytes of files for CPM, MSDOS, and some others. BillW

part 1 689 bytes content-type:text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed (decoded 7bit) I have a reasonable collection of BYTE magazines in storage. I'll get dates collated as to what issues I have. These are free to a good home. If your not in Melbourne, Australia, you will have to pay for the shipping. Nino. William Couture wrote: {Quote hidden}> On 4/28/05, Josh Koffman <RemoveMEjoshybearTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: > > >>I seem to recall very few pre-1990 CDROMs of shareware. I'm guessing >>this is because the drives were still really expensive at that point. >>I do have some from 92-93 region though. > > > Could I persuade you to make copies for me? What would you like > in return? > > Bill > part 2 438 bytes content-type:text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name=nino.benci.vcf (decoded 7bit) begin:vcard fn:Antonio Benci n:Benci;Antonio org:Monash University;School of Physics adr:Clayton Campus;;Building 27;Clayton;VIC;3168;Australia email;internet:electronic.servicesEraseME.....spme.monash.edu.au title:Professional Officer / Electronic Services Manager tel;work:+613 9905 3649 tel;fax:+613 9905 3637 tel;cell:+61414924833 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.spme.monash.edu.au version:2.1 end:vcard part 3 35 bytes content-type:text/plain; charset="us-ascii" (decoded 7bit)