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BYTE Vol 03-08 1978-08 Pascal - 212 Pages 127,989,324 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 03-08 August 1978... I hope you like Pascal because they really went overboard with it in this issue.. Articles on comparing it to BASIC, an article on comparing it to COBOL, articles on structured programming, an article on compilation of Pascal.. Pascal Pascal Pascal. Foreground COMPILATION AND PASCAL ON THE NEW MICROPROCESSORS PASCAL: A Structurally Strong Language DESIGNING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE TALKING: Add a Noncontact Touch Scanner Background ON BUILDING A LIGHT-SEEKING ROBOT MECHANISM THE NUMBER CRUNCHING PROCESSOR PHILADELPHIA'S 179 YEAR OLD ANDROID ANTIQUE MECHANICAL COMPUTERS, Part 2 IN PRAISE OF PASCAL PASCAL VERSUS COBOL: Where Pascal Gets Down to Business JACPOT PASCAL VERSUS BASIC: An Exercise Nucleus In This BYTE A Vision of an Industry Letters Technical Forum: A Letter Exchange: Extending S-100 Bus? About the Cover Languages Forum: A Homebrew Pascal Compiler Clubs, Newsletters BYTE's Bugs Consistency - or a Lack Thereof Languages Forum: A Proposed Pascal Compiler Event Queue What's New? Unclassified Ads BOMB Reader Service Download it here: BYTE Vol 03-08 1978-08 Pascal Cover Index

Unfortunately, I have fairly limited scanning equipment, and do not want to cut my magazines up - however, here's a scan of page 90. Perhaps somebody with good editing skills and a PDF editor could stitch these together? If you need me to scan again (differently, higher res, etc. currently scanned at 300x300), let me know. For some reason when I edited the attachment got lost... Here it is. I am still trying to figure out how to save the image to my computer .... no right-click save-as

Book: Out of the Inner Circle So I was cleaning an old toolbox out and came across a couple of old books... They are not in too great of shape so I decided to hack them up and scan them in.. The first one is from 1985 and is called "Out of the Inner Circle". I remember reading this book as a teenager after I got my first modem and thought I was going to be the best hacker ever heh ANTIC did a blurb on it: ANTIC Blurb A couple of interesting trivia points on this book.. The author (18 y/o at the time) was supposed to write a second book but vanished while writing it.. The PC was left on with some sort of suicide note. That was the story I always remembered.. While doing a little reading today it looks like he just disappeared for a few months.. though nobody seems to have ever seen him again after he was spotted in Seattle a few months after vanishing... You can read about it in this phrack from back then: Phrack archive - You will need to search for "landreth" to find the story... The other trivia point.. The last person to see Bill Landreth before he vanished (he was living with him - the guy went to take a shower and when he came back Bill Landreth was gone with the PC in mid sentence of a book they were writing) was another person busted by the FBI back then.. Turns out the guy ended up doing OK http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/myspace-cofounder-tom-anderson-was-a-real-life-wargames-hacker-in-1980s/ Read it! Its an interesting read: Out of the Inner Circle

We started subscribing to Byte in 1979, right before we bought a 32K PET with full-sized keyboard (used it was $1100 with external C2N tape drive!) We never waited for stuff to trickle down, but I did read all the ads for the S-100 stuff and was amazed at what a serious system would cost (48K-64K plus floppies plus dumb terminal was "standard" by then, and cost a couple grand). I don't remember first-gen S-100 stuff being widely available at used prices (perhaps because folks held on to what they had and upgraded, or perhaps because it just wasn't easy to advertise used gear). In the late 80's and early 90's in the old computer shopper magazines you could buy S-100 boards by the pound.. Had we known what the S-100 stuff would sell for on eBay 10 years later.....

Indeed. The original PET was how I got my start at age 11 (I recently picked up a chicklet-keyboard PET at the Vintage Computerfest-Midwest, which I'm now restoring). And how about "C: A LANGUAGE FOR MICROPROCESSORS?" (especially since in other contemporary coverage, C was subordinated to PL/1 and FORTRAN for "serious" work, and to BASIC and PASCAL for simpler exercises - boy how that changed just a few years later). I'm getting a 404 right now (and the covers didn't render in this post). Having site problems? I had the year wrong on the filename (and the name was wrong on here as well).. I always get something wrong but I usually get it fixed before someone notices.. You guys are too fast! Speaking of which.. Your quote still has the wrong url.. Can you fix that? There was a comment that a few of the pages were a bit washed out in the last 1986 posting.. I noticed that and forgot to go back and fix it.. I tossed the magazine before reading the post so unfortunately I can't do anything about it. I should have another Issue up Saturday.. An Issue from 1978 focusing on Pascal.

BYTE Vol 02-10 1977-10 Implementing Spacewar! - 212 Pages 132,028,936 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 02-10 October 1977... I thought this would be a somewhat boring issue.. I was totally wrong! The Spacewar article is amazing.. Not only is the source code there but a thorough explanation of the game and how to hook it up to an oscilloscope. I also enjoyed the article on the new Commodore PET (the one with the really crappy keyboard) and the article on the future of color displays... Many more good articles, this is one of my favorite issues to date. Foreground RELOCATABILITY AND THE LONG BRANCH AN APL INTERPRETER FOR MICROCOMPUTERS, Part 3 HOW TO IMPLEMENT SPACE WAR ANALYZE YOUR CAR'S GAS ECONOMY WITH YOUR COMPUTER Background HOW TO WRITE AN APPLICATION PROGRAM OTHELLO, A NEW ANCI ENT GAME AN 8080 SIMULATOR FUNDAMENTALS OF SEQUENTIAL FILE PROCESSING C: A LANGUAGE FOR MICROPROCESSORS? SIMPLE APPROACHES TO COMPUTER MUSIC SYNTHESIS STRUCTURED PROGRAM DESIGN COMPUTER INFORMATION ARRANGEMENT MASTERMIND Nucleus In This BYTE The Colorful Future of Personal Computing Letters About the Cover . .. and Some More of the Same Languages Forum : Defining LI L, a Little Interpretive Language Commodore's New PET Computer The NCC: A Dallas Delight Technical Forum: More on Inexpensive Plotters Book Reviews BYTE's Bits BYTE's Bugs Clubs, Newsletters Ask BYTE What's New? Classified Ads BOMB Reader Service Download it here: BYTE Vol 02-10 1977-10 Implementing Spacewar! Cover Index

BYTE Vol 11-06 1986-06 Computers and Music - 464 Pages 318,067,690 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 11-06 June 1986... Computers and Music. An two-fer this week.. Compare how things changed in nine years with music. FEATURES INTRODUCTION PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: THE MACINTOSH PROGRAMMING PROJECT: A SIMPLE FILE-INDEXING SCHEME ClARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: ADDING SCSI TO THE SBI80 COMPUTER, PART 2: Bus PHASES SORTING PRoDOS DIRECTORIES DECODING MACPAINT ON THE IBM PC PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: HILBERT CURVES MADE SIMPLE THEME: COMPUTERS AND MUSIC THE CHALLENGE OF MUSIC SOFTWARE DIGITAL MUSIC SYNTHESIS DIGITAL SAMPLING ON THE APPLE MACINTOSH MUSICAL FRACTALS A MIDI PROJECT MIDI PROGRAMMING REVIEWS REVIEWER'S NOTEBOO THE ATARI 520ST COMPA~ DESKPRO 286 TELE-286 MIX C. FOUR MIDI INTERFACES CONCERTWARE+ AND SONGPAINTER THE KURZWEIL 250 DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER REVIEW FEEDBACK KERNEL COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: COLOR AND CP/M by lerry Pournelle BYTE U.K.: MODEM MYSTERIES REVEALED APPLICATIONS ONLY: UPGRADE FEVER BYTE JAPAN: NEW TOOLS, NEW CHALLENGES ACCORDING TO WEBSTER: STORAGE FOR THE MASSES BEST OF BIX AMIGA ATARI ST IBM PC AND COMPATIBLES MACINTOSH Download it here: BYTE Vol 11-06 1986-06 Computers and Music Cover Index

BYTE Vol 02-09 1977-09 Music and Computers - 228 Pages 143,137,577 bytes BYTE Issue Vol 02-09 September 1977... Music and Computers. An early BYTE covering Music.. Foreground SCORTOS: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MUSIC LANGUAGE CONTROL THE WORLD! (OR AT LEAST A FEW ANALOG POINTS) TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTER PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC TUNE IN WITH SOME CHIPS AN APL INTERPRETER FOR MICROCOMPUTERS, Part 2 Background A NEW DRESS FOR KIM EXPANDING THE TINY ASSEMBLER ONE-SIDED VIEW OF WIRE WRAP SOCKETS THE NOVAL 760 NOTES ON INTERFACING PLAYER PIANOS NOTES ON ANATOMY: THE PIANO'S REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WALSH FUNCTIONS: A DIGITAL FOURIER SERIES Nucleus In this BYTE Reflections on Entry into Our Third Year Letters Alphanumeric Music Review: Heuristics Speech Lab Technical Forum: Personal Computer Network Adding New Transcendentals to Limited BASICs On Finite State Machines and Their Uses Comments on Floating Point Representation Download it here: BYTE Vol 02-09 1977-09 Music and Computers Cover Index

Unfortunately I do not have that issue yet.. If someone out there has it and would like to cough it up.. The next two issues are done, I just have to get them uploaded.. Should be up later tonight: September 1977 and June 1986 (both computer music issues). I'll do a few issues with the A8 next.. I think the Chris Crawford articles ran for about a year.

BYTE Vol 10-11 1985-10 Special Issue: Inside the IBM PCs - 310 Pages 208,460,825 bytes BYTE "Special" Issue Vol 10-11 November 1985... All about the IBM PC - Bonus issue this week for everyone! Mainly because I did not want to waist an entire week on an issue devoted to the IBM PC. This issue is more interesting than it sounds! Maybe by like 10%... This is not the usual BYTE.. Very few ads in the back, chock full of articles. Here is what is included in the 310 pages: An Editorial on INTEL and Future IBM PCS. A long bibliography on upcoming books Public-Domain Utilities ROM BIOS Extensions for the AT Comparing 8087/80287 performance - Man the 80287 did not do that great Moving from the 8088 to the 80286 Writing Desk Accessories A MIDI Recorder Circuit Design with Lotus 1-2-3 Adding a Hard Drive to a 80286 Fixed Disks and the PC AT A survey of Debuggers IBM Compatibility Issues Benchmarking the Clones Four hard drives for under $1000 Programing the EGA card IBM PC Interrupt Service Routines Pick, Coherent, and THEOS (multiuser operating systems) One Million Promes through the Sieve TopView - IBMs new multitasking for DOS When your PC doesn't work IBM PC Family BIOS Comparison Device-Independent Graphics IBM PC Disk Performance and the Interleave Factor Download it here: BYTE Vol 10-11 1985-11 Special Issue: Inside the IBM PCs Cover Index

BYTE Vol 00-05 1976-01 Build a Light Pen - 100 Pages 58,028,916 bytes Issue #5 of BYTE Magazine... Another one for those that love hardware diagrams: Light pens, more on LIFE, Golf Handicapping, and photographic notes on wire wrapping... A new mini-microcomputer system, a horror story, the total kitchen information system, the INTEL 8080 OP CODE Table, more to blinking lights than meets the eye, taking advantage of memory address space, K or k? and finally a review of the CT-1024 Kit... Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-05 1976-01 Build a Light Pen Cover Index

Quick update: If you look at the first post in this thread you will notice that many magazines have been added. I received a package from AlanD that had 21 new magazines including the rest of 1976/77/78 issues that I did not have. We now have the first 49 issues of BYTE and only need a few more holes filled to have the first 70 or so.. Big thanks to AlanD, these are painful to order on eBay! Everyone should go find his posts talking about these magazines a page or so back and click on the + brownie points (or whatever they are called here ) and show him some love Next issue posted will be #5. Thanks!

BYTE Vol 08-10 1983-10 UNIX - 676 Pages - 462,189,225 bytes BYTE Volume 08-10 from October 1983... Huge Huge issue, the largest one scanned so far.. Sure to cause some pain on your hard drive This issue has a focus on UNIX. The Stories include: A product review of the HP 150 and an interview with the design team.. Part 2 of building a solid state video camera, a report from BYTE west coast, and a new User's column by Jerry Pournelle. UNIX themes: The UNIX operating system primer, Part 3 the UNIX tutorial, Standardization of UNIX on small computers, The UNIX file system, the UNIX Shell, The UNIX Application environment, Usenet - a UNIX bulletin board, The UNIX Writer's workbench, Typesetting on UNIX systems, and Moving UNIX to new machines. Good stuff! Reviews include: The NEC Advanced Personal Computer, The TRS-80 Model 4, The Morrow Micro Decision, The MicronEye, The m68000 Educational Computer Board, Fancy Font, and UNIX-style tools for CP/M. And finally features: Photographic animation using microcomputers, The fourth national computer graphics conference, Echonet part 2, Computer Crime, putting mainframe graphics on microcomputer, talker, Bitmaps Speed Data-handling tasks, and simplified program interfacing. The article on Computer crime (Computer Crime: A growing threat) was especially interesting... The microbytes are also interesting.. The announcement of the arrival of 256K DRAMS and WANG introduces the concept of grouping multiple DRAM chips into something called "single in0line memory module" or SIMM. Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-10 1983-10 UNIX Cover Index

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BYTE Vol 05-04 1980-04 Printed Software - 308 Pages - 204,109,157 bytes BYTE Volume 05-04 from April 1980... What amazing articles do we have in this issue? How about Computing the I Ching with a TRS-80, Disk file management techniques, Programming the 2708 EPROMS, Audio Processing on the APPLE II, and build your own EPROM eraser. The Background articles include: Using the Computer ad a musicians Amanuensis, adding a simple text editor to your BASIC programs, easing into 16-bit computing, real-time music synthesis, learn to calculate the filter capacitor values for power supplies, and a graphics text editor for Music (part I). Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-04 1980-04 Printed Software Cover Index Bonus

BYTE Vol 05-10 1980-10 Software - 404 Pages - 281,287,779 bytes BYTE Volume 05-10 from October 1980... Good stuff in this issue! Interfacing an 8088 to the S-100 bus, Sorting with Binary Trees, FLOPTRAN-IV, Symbolic math with BASIC, adding instructions to the 6502, and vector graphics for raster displays. The background articles include using liquid crystal displays, an informational retrieval system, adding macro expansion to a microcomputer, machine problem solving, and an interview with the FORTH standards team. An interesting entry in the BYTElines about a new 32 bit processor - How long will it be before we see 32 bit computers? Maybe never, there is no need for home computers to have 32 bits.. Good call! Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-10 1980-10 Software Cover Index Bonus

Hi people.. I have been out of town and a bit busy.. Back now! I should have a new mag up in a couple of days or so.

BYTE Vol 00-04 1975-12 Assembling an Altair - 116 Pages - 68,241,500 bytes BYTE #4 from December 1975... The last one from 1975, that year is all scanned! This is a very interesting issue especially if you like hardware stories and electronic diagrams. The main articles include: the Powerless IC test clip, LIFE line 3, Building a 6800, Getting you computer to tell time, and notes on prototype construction. Oh yes there is more! How about an in depth look at Logic Probes, or a 10 page article on "What is a character?", and Flip Flops exposed! There is an expose of something called "Read only memory" technology, a review of the HP-65, and assembling an Altair 8800. Two unmentioned articles I found good reading: The editorial (four pages) is titled "What this country needs is a good 8-bit High level language" and Page 92 in "BYTE's Bits" has a fun article entitled "Welcome, IBM, to personal computing". Little did they know a few years later... Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-04 1975-12 Assembling an Altair Cover Index

Link fixed.. Sorry about that. I made a quick edit afterward to add comic to the description and added it to the URL by mistake.

There were five Atari Force Comics included with games. They were half size comics. The 21 additional comics were normal sized comics and took place after the first five comics. There were some other comics in games that are downloadable off of this site.. Not Atari force. A couple of higher-end graphics novels that I do not see mentioned very often is Star Raiders and Warlords. Very nicely done and good quality.. I have these scanned but I don't think I have ever posted them: Star Raiders: Download Here: Star Raiders Comic Warlords: Download here: Warlords Comic

I made up DVD sets (or in this case CD sets) for these: I think I ended up making only three of them and sending them out. Only 600 megs or so if I remember... they should be sitting somewhere and down-loadable.

BYTE Vol 07-06 1982-06 interactive Videodiscs - 564 Pages - 372,919,524 bytes BYTE Volume 07-06 from June 1982... This one is a big issue with awesome stuff inside! Videodiscs stuff galore including one from Steve Ciarcia on building your own interface. An article on standardizing BASIC, part 5 of an input/output primer (this one is on character codes), an I/O board for the color computer, Part 10 of the Atari tutorial from Chris Crawford, migrating to CP/M-80 and MS-DOS, an Apple telecommunications article, and an omni navigation system. Whew! There are tons of reviews in this one... Including may games in the BYTE Arcade, The Osborne 1, App-L-ISP, NEWDOS/80 Version 2.0 and many others. I noticed a picture of the bit-3 80 column board for the Atari 800 in the Editorial - IT was covering the west coast computer faire. My scanner was having some issues this week and I am very short on time right now so there are more scan streaks than I like.. Next one should be better. Download it here: BYTE Vol 07-06 1982-02 Interactive Videodiscs Cover Index Bonus

Yeah that was me - sorry for the bump in your bandwidth. I love reading old BYTEs and ever since I got my iPad I've been looking for some BYTE PDFs to go on it (to go with the complete run of COMPUTE! that's already on there) and I'd periodically do a google for some, coming up empty until that night I discovered this thread on here. I was all "squee! BYTES!" to my twitter feed before I noticed your comment in thread about not spreading the word too far. Sorry for that, and much thanks for this excellent stream of scans. Absolutely perfect 'pad fodder and I'm very much enjoying reading through the issues. Great work and much appreciated }:-). I hope AMC went ok on your Galaxy S! } You're mentioning a complete run of Compute, do you no if that's available somewhere online? The guy that did the scans for Compute! mostly does Commodore mags... Though he has done a host of others such as Family Computing, Enter, Blip!, Computer Language, Input, etc.. You can find them and links to current torrents here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines.htm

Yeah that was me - sorry for the bump in your bandwidth. I love reading old BYTEs and ever since I got my iPad I've been looking for some BYTE PDFs to go on it (to go with the complete run of COMPUTE! that's already on there) and I'd periodically do a google for some, coming up empty until that night I discovered this thread on here. I was all "squee! BYTES!" to my twitter feed before I noticed your comment in thread about not spreading the word too far. Sorry for that, and much thanks for this excellent stream of scans. Absolutely perfect 'pad fodder and I'm very much enjoying reading through the issues. Great work and much appreciated }:-). I hope AMC went ok on your Galaxy S! } Hey no problem... nice to have a celebrity in our midst ...and AMC had some problems running on the emulator (when I told my brother about the post he said "Attack of the mutant camels? That's like the only one I have tested that does not work!" so anyway he is working on it.

Thank you sir.. I have a few more coming in.. I will get a list together and start bugging people again