Every issue of Byte magazine is now online.

[inkican@mastodon.social]

Every issue of Byte magazine is now online. Old code. Old dreams. Still useful. The archive is a time machine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09 #tech #history #STEM

[sheddi@mstdn.party]

@inkican ooh! I used to enjoy reading Byte back in the 80s. Will have to take a wander down memory lane.

[dogriley@opensocial.media]

@inkican

From the ‘write your own assembler’ article in the first issue….

‘But such obstacles have never stopped anyone with your boundless enthusiasm’

[stebo@sled.social]

@inkican So the first issue ads include an ad from "James" electronics in Belmont. Is this Jameco under a previous name?

Also an ad nera the back indciates "tri-share is a trademark of National Semiconductor". Is this a typo? Or perhaps did National call tri-state "tri-share" back September 1975? Or is it something else altogether? National always loved their tristate trademark, that's for sure.

[vor@lgbtqia.space]

@inkican

Tip: Check the ads in the back of April issues.

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@inkican
The contents of #InternetArchive are valuable treasure. It's too bad that its UI is so horrible, that metadata of archived items is unreliable, and that it's often impossible to get anybody to correct mistakes.

When I complained about inaccuracies in some items on their forum, the consensus was not that I should contact somebody to fix it. The suggestion was that I should upload another copy of the materials with the corrections.

Do better @internetarchive .

[domi@donotsta.re]

@inkican@mastodon.social this will be so useful for my research <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://donotsta.re/emoji/blobcat/blobcat3c.png" title=":blobcat3c:" />

now, I wish one day the same happens for PCMag and Computerworld, by my guesstimate there's ~10% of them archived online. And gosh, they would be so useful for fact-checking, too...

[eloy@hsnl.social]

@domi @inkican yeah, I wish the same

and the ones that are on Archive.org are not really organized