Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
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Cassette tapes as “bulk memory”. 😂
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I didn’t know anyone with a home computer until I went to college in 1980, but one of my buddies in ‘78 went to a computer camp at a small college where he learned to program on a “microcomputer” the size of a fridge. Cassette memory drives were amazing if you’d learned on punch cards.
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Same here, and I was considered too stupid to go to an extra-cirrular class teaching computer programming, even though I knew more about computers than my teachers did… oh boy, did I have fun later on…
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byte.tsundoku.io
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It was great time in tech. For me, Computer Shopper was equal to the Sears Christmas catalog.
aug 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
And some oldies rise from the ashes again: www.computesgazette.com
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My favorite stop bit from Byte: linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/h...
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Bulk memory was tray after tray of punch cards being fed into a ibm 409 card sorter and then into a ibm 1401 to load to tape. Memories....
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For a few years BYTE was the best computer magazine out there, featuring actual technical articles and projects, and then they started going downhill, doing just ads and corporate propoganda… Dobbs, Microcornucois and some others kept that going for a bit longer…
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do we have a name for our incunabular period
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Home-brew computing?
aug 30, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
so maybe we're not really out of it yet, companies like MNT (or framework) still get a decent following mnt.re
aug 30, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Loved those massive issues!
aug 30, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow!
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Go to this website, right now: byte.tsundoku.io
aug 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Here's the complete first issue so you may answer the question, Which microprocessor for you? www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte...
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Thanks Jeff!
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