I journeyed into the web archive of an iconic consumer electronics magazine – here’s what I found
While most of us are now getting online on our technological news, millions of people in the world are making their way through a newspaper or a magazine to keep up to date.
Unfortunately, the printed media are a declining industry, according to Statista figures, and with a digital world at hand, it is easy to see why you would visit the countless information sites (but also in decline) to keep your finger on the pulse of the global technological scene.
Returned in the mid -1970s, however, and it was a completely different world – and Byte The magazine was all the rage. Launched in 1975, the magazine acquired the reputation of its in-depth coverage of “microcomputers” and increased in parallel with the first days of personal computer science.
The magazine was published monthly and the readers were able to subscribe through an annual subscription of only $ 10 initially. Even according to today’s standards, it’s cheap, coming to the equivalent of $ 59.88 – a great value, if you ask me.
In 1979, at the time of its acquisition by the McGraw-Hill Publishing Group, Byte Bossé a paid circulation of more than 150,000 readers, making it one of the most popular technological magazines on the scene.
Byte brought back to life
Time changes, however, and in 1998 the printed version of Byte was published for the last time. Having been acquired by CMP Media a few years ago, the decision was made to reduce the staff and stop production.
THE Byte The website finally closed in 2013 after several unhappy attempts to relaunch the site.
Fortunately, we can return and have an overview Byte At its peak, thanks to a new online archive.
Byte: a visual archive Bring back the magazine in all its glory, giving users access to each first page, article and advertising. A quick overview of the archive home page gives you an idea exactly How much Cover that the magazine has provided over the years.
The content division of the decade, countless hours of typing and who knows how many moments of the writer’s block for the plethora of journalists who boasted by Bylines in the magazine.
Immersing in the archives with one click, I landed on the September 1983 edition – a time of time when I was just a glow in my father’s eye.
On the left, we have announcements for the Mitsubishi disk discounts offering powerful 6.2K RAM bytes. Powerful things. Elsewhere, we have an announcement for color printers aimed at helping companies visualize data and a review for the personal foot Piper.
Going down another rabbit burrow, the foot pipe was released in the early 1980s by semi-technical microelectronic (STM). At the time, it was a low -cost and “portable” commercial computer.
To judge by size, it certainly does not get a five -star note on Techradar based on this. Anyway, the author Seth P. Bates noted that it was an unprofitable option for businesses at the time.
“The Piper foot offers real commercial features at toy prices,” he wrote. “Although some of its features could have been designed differently, as for any machine, STM offers a good system for money”.
“The II and III models are already underway, and one of them is a 16 -bit machine,” added Bates. “These additions to the line, as well as the promise of the LCD 20line option, make the future of the pipe pipe.”
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