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BYTE Vol 00-16 1976-12 Machine Readable Print - 148 Pages - 86,543,015 bytes BYTE number 16 from December 1976... Love the Cover on this one! So evidently someone has a crazy Idea to use computer to read bar code labels and also printed software. Some great articles: A cybernetic crayon (an etch-a-sketch interface), Systems programming and the SR-52, Stretching the 6800 clock, compressing strings, signal processing for optical bar code scanning, an in depth look at the AC-30 computer, and a Universal Turing machine. In the Background we have: Samples of machine readable printed software, Software for reading bar codes, An in-depth look ant the processor technology VDM-1, Do-it-yourself weather predictions, and building a cassette interface for the AC-30. Take a peak at the article on the state of the art in disk technology on page 86... and a look at the first west coast computer faire on page 95... Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-16 1976-12 Machine Readable Print Cover Index Bonus

Cool about your brother's emulator... I've been waiting for this (and a C64 and Apple //e emu). Unfortunately, it is really only for playing games. Is he planning on adding keyboard support soon? I do not know.. I will ask him about it. When I was over at his house he was working on a 5200 emulator and was not happy with how the controls were working and grumbled about making an XEGS emulator instead. My guess would be that he would since he mentioned he has some changes to make.

Quick update: After getting a bump up to 35 gig of transfers in one day I did some searching to see who was the original tweeter that caused the spike in bandwidth. Turned out to be Jeff Minter... That is so cool My brother just released an Atari 8-bit emulator for the android OS called "droid800" (it is free - download it and give him some props in the android store please! He also has a 2600 emulator for the android) I am testing it today on my Galaxy S phone and I think I will be using a pirated copy of Attack of the mutant Camels Jeff! Anyway! I have acquired Issue #5 so expect that in the not to distant future... Also I will once again be going to Haiti/Dominican Republic so I am trying to get ahead a couple of issues but there might be a two week hiatus in November.

BYTE Vol 05-03 1980-03 Computers in the Laboratory - 294 Pages - 200,433,470 bytes bytes BYTE Volume 05-03 from March 1980... Another one of my "not favorite" issues but I am sure others will think it is great. Steve Ciarcia has a great article about transitioning from 8 to 16 bit computing. The Rest of the foreground articles: Electron behavior, Solving problems involving Variable terrain, Power-line protection circuit, Landing Module simulator, Dirt-cheap bootstrapping, Hydrocarbon molecule constructor, and a 3D tic-tac-toe.. No heavy reading here In the Background we have: An in-depth look at the HP-85 Computer, TRS-80 Evaluation by program timing, Electronic Planimetry, Op codes for the 8080, 8085, and Z80 processors, and an article about finding errors in your code more easily. I thought the BYTE News was interesting this month: France moving to put terminals in every home, IBM moving away from EBCDIC, APPLE, Atari, and Tandy team up against the FCC, Rumors about a color TRS-80 possibly to be called the TRS-90, Burroughs to introduce a 6 megabyte disk drive, Texas Instruments and Atari facing shortages of chips are delaying computer deliveries, A market-research firm predicts that there will be data-storage advances (somebody was payed to predict this? HAHA), Texas instruments working on Speech-Synthesis, and a lot more Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-03 1980-03 Computers in the Laboratory Cover Index Bonus

Status on the bandwidth: The transfer amount quadrupled about a week ago - mostly from European sites.. A couple of east European posts I saw and also a twitter that caused a spike of 25 gigs in one day.. Nothing over bounds... I can average 30 gigs a day with no worries. so far so good

BYTE Vol 00-15 1976-11 More Fun Than Crayons - 148 Pages - 86,318,711 bytes bytes BYTE Issue #15 from November 1976... More electronic diagrams to build displays than you will see in any other magazine issue: Build a Beer budget graphics Interface, Add this graphics display to your system, An enterprising display device, make your next peripheral a real eye opener, and build this video dispaly terminal.. Five in one issue! There are also articles on using graphics, wiring pencils, background information on graphics, and an introduction to the APL language... The Nucleus has a good look at the Astral 2000 computer, the Merlin video interface, and a proposes standard on publishing binary data. There is also an editorial on the address space saturation problem. Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-15 1976-11 More Fun than Crayons Note: I also created a smaller version (120 dpi instead of 300 dpi) that shrinks the size to 26,578,057 bytes.. This will look the same to most viewers unless you have some insane resolution or like to get really close up.. Depending on the reception of this I may even squeeze it further (say another 25% smaller). I did not bookmark the smaller issue. Download the smaller version here: BYTE Vol 00-15 1976-11 More Fun than Crayons SmallPDF Cover Index Bonus

ah thanks much! Always good to get them spread out.. Harder to kill that way So far the bandwidth has not been too bad though it has picked up and for sure it has been mentioned somewhere.. The heaviest day was last week with 21 gigs in one day.

BYTE Vol 02-08 1977-08 Working with APL - 180 Pages - 106,543,021 bytes BYTE Vol 2-8 from August 1977... All things wonderful about APL. Features include: Controlling small DC Motors with Analog Signals, Serendipitous Circles, and trapping techniques for the 8080 processor. There is also a microprocessor course, a close look at the COSMAC VIP from RCA, an 8 digit HEX readout, and simple algorithms for calculating functions. There is also a multi page "whats new" on that covers the Heathkit computers. APL Articles: Understanding APL, APL in Action, an APL Interpreter for Microcomputers part I, and why people get hooked on APL. Download it here: BYTE Vol 02-08 1977-08 Working with APL Cover Index Bonus

Thanks mjunio for the comments.. I have that issues scanned. I am cleaning it up right now so hopefully I'll have it up later tonight.

Yeah! I have managed to snag issue #4 .. In the queue to do.. probably two weeks

BYTE Vol 06-04 1981-04 Future Computers - 418 Pages - 279,064,576 bytes BYTE Vol 6-4 from April 1981... Very interesting and technical heavy Issue. Features include: Recurrence in Numerical Analysis, Build a low cost analyzer, A look a the national computer conference in Chicago, Digital minicassette controller, programming the game of GO, Build your own Turing machine, A close up look at the TI Speak & Spell, An Introduction to Data compression, Build an intercomputer Data link, the second part of programming 3-D graphics, and programming PADDLE interfaces. Reviews include the MicroAce computer, A reformatter for IBM and CP/M, and three versions of APL. See the editorial on page 10 for a first look at the Osborne 1 computer that fits under an airline seat! Download it here: BYTE Vol 06-04 1981-04 Future Computers Cover Index Bonus

BYTE Vol 05-01 1980-01 Domesticated Computers - 276 Pages - 182,640,640 bytes BYTE Vol 5-1 from January 1980... The first BYTE for the 1980's. The editorial talks about the era of Off-the-Shelf personal computers arriving. Major articles include using a computer to monitor your home with hardware designs for controlling dimmer switches and monitors for the furnace. Assembler programming articles for indirect addressing on the 6502 and relocating 8080 system software. More hardware articles? How about an Alpha Lock for an ASCII keyboard? Other articles include Polynomial functions using the TI-59 calculator, Dialing a telephone with a computer, a detailed look at a plotter, and an article on what computers can't do. Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-01 1980-01 Domesticated Computers Cover Index Bonus

Thank you very much for the kudos everyone. I also did not read BYTE much when I was younger as Compute!/ANTIC/Analog were more my thing. I really have enjoyed going through these mags while scanning them...

BYTE Vol 00-10 1976-06 The Game of LIFE Played in Color - 116 Pages, 66,407,949 bytes BYTE Issue #10 from June 1976... Build a television display, build an M6800 Microcomputer, Do some matchmaking on an Altair, and interact with an ELM. Not enough for you? How about the second part to a chip off the PDP 8/E? An Introduction to addressing methods? A product description of SCELBAL, Programming for the beginner, A high school computer system, more, more, more! Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-10 1976-06 The Game of LIFE in Color Cover Index

Well I seem to have lost the ability to edit the main topic to make updates. Bummer.. I thought it worked well to keep track of the main list and also let people know there was a new issues so they did not have to read every time there was a post. Edit: Nevermind, it has been fixed!

BYTE Vol 08-03 1986-03 Homebound Computing - 480 Pages, 327,471,133 bytes The only BYTE where an Atari made the cover. This issue covers homebound computing with the main article being an in-depth review of the Atari 1040ST. Very interesting graph showing computers based on the price per megabyte. The 1040ST was the first computer to break the 1K per dollar mark. There are many other featured articles including finding the Titanic, A real-time clock, creating a simple windowing system (part 1), an ANSI standard for the C language, and a disassembler for the Macintosh. Under the homebound computing theme there are some great articles: Working at home with computers (hey it might catch on), Using images to generate speech, The electronic University, The Kurzweil Voice Writer technology, Independence for the Aging, and computing for the blind user. Reviews include the Kaypro 286i, the Modula-2 system for Z80 CP/M, Pocket APL, Arity Prolog, Braille-Edit, and Prinitit. Finally in the Kernel we have Chaos Manor, the 68000 war round 1, and a look at the Amstrad PCW 8256. The cover is seriously dirty for this issue. I did not spent a lot of time trying to clean it up as the rest of the magazine looked OK and the cleanup I did do was not looking good.. Download it here: BYTE Vol 11-03 1986-03 Homebound Computing Cover Index

Yes it feels like a ticking time bomb So far it has not been so bad. Two days ago there was about 10 gig of traffic which is the most for one day so far.. Still only 25% of the allocation. My thought was that I would post this before my trip so that if there is a spike because of issue #1 it would have time to work its way down... really though it could be months or never. This is the last one for a couple of weeks. I have the next one done (the 1986 issue with the Atari ST on the front) so that I have something to post when I get back.. then it will go to a one or two per week schedule.. Since starting this 12 issues have been scanned but I have picked up 15 new ones (the new ones are not in the intitial thread list yet) so we are farther behind than when we started! Anyone have any issues they are particularly wanting to see sooner rather than later? I was going to try to focus on the ones with the atari articles since that was suggested..

BYTE Vol 00-01 1975-09 The Worlds Greatest Toy! - 100 Pages (62,035,693 bytes) BYTE Issue #1: Yes now you the humble reader can partake of the first issue of BYTE magazine. Read and be amazed by articles such as: Recycling used ICs, Deciphering mystery keyboards, and LIFE Line... But wait there is more! Find out which processor is best for you, read all about the RGS 008a Microcomputer Kit and learn all about the serial interface. Find out how to write your very own assembler. This and so much more! Download today! Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-01 1975-09 The Worlds Greatest Toy! Cover Index

Issue #1 will be up later tonight....

BYTE Vol 00-02 1975-10 Build a Graphics Display - 100 Pages, 56,343,321 bytes BYTE Issue #2 with lots of software and hardware articles: Testing Keyboards, add a stack to the 8008, building a graphics interface, an assembler for the 8008, LIFE line 2. The picture of the Kluge Harp is insane and a must see on page 17.. You should build one! Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-02 1975-10 Build a Graphics Display Cover Index

Which magazines are they? What dates/volume/platform?

I definitely would be interested! Especially in anything up through 1986. I just acquired another 14 BYTES.. As soon as they arrive in the mail I will get them posted to the initial thread topic list and we can compare them to see what is missing. Most of the ones I have coming in the mail appear to be older than what you have so there should not be too much overlap.

BYTE Vol 08-09 1983-09 Portable Computers in Depth - 674 Pages, 442,998,784 bytes Everything you wanted to know about portable computers including a a multi-page table comparing dozens of them. The main topic articles include Computing on the run, How to choose a portable, High-IQ Modems, The challenge of hard disk portability, and creating a portable visi-calc. Some other very nice articles as well: A in-depth look at CMOS technology, the new micro floppy standards, Building a solid state camera that does not use film, the next five years in micro computing, Part 2 of the UNIX tutorial, The C Language primer part 2, the 8087 co-processor part 2, Echonet, an Introduction to Layered protocols, a CES report, and a ton of stuff I left out... In-depth reviews: The Gavilan portable computer, TRS-80 Model 100, HP-75 Portable Computer, The Access Portable computer, Epson HX-20, Texas Instruments CC-40, The Pied Piper "portable", The Kaypro II, and the Corona Portable. They were really churning out the articles in 1983. Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-09 1983-09 Portable Computers in Depths Cover Index Bonus

Very interesting find! I wonder how many of these treasures are out there that I do not know about?? I did an OCR and straightened the pages: Scelbi's_Galaxy_Game_for_the_'6800'(Robert Findley)(1977)

Hey there Hans, thanks much for the comment.. At this point I have no idea how many I will do or how far up datewise I will scan. If the opportunity comes up to get the later issues I will probably get them and take a look to see if they are worth scanning. I have a pile of creative computing and Kilobaud mags that I would like to get done as well so it just depends on what shows up to buy and what gets completed in my collection. As far as torrents that will probably happen as volumes become complete (and if not someone else will make torrents since the mags are now "out there") So far I am only at about 30 Gigs a week (about 10% of what is available) for transfers. I have also had some offers to take some of the bandwidth so there is no need as of yet to remove any of the older magazines. Issues #1 and #2 will get posted next week (actually they are already up I just have not put a link to them yet ) - that may draw some attention at some point and change things who knows.