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BYTE Vol 00-09 1976-05 Shooting Stars - 100 Pages, 57,425,920 Bytes Byte Issue #9! An up-close look at the KIM computer, Build a serial ASCII Word Generator, Build an Octal Front Panel, Serialize bits from your keyboard, a detailed look at PROMs, a look at the INTERSIL IM6100 chip, and so much more! The letters section has some great letters including one on the blasphemy of wanting to remove front panel lights... Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-09 1976-05 Shooting Stars Cover Index

This file doesn't seem to exist :-( The BYTEs have been moved... BYTE Link

BYTE Vol 05-12 1980-12 Adventure - 404 Pages, 276,303,872 Bytes The BYTE Adventure Issue! Two adventures with source code including one by Scott Adams, Survey of adventure games, Article on Zork and Character variation in RPG Games... reviews of Dungeon Campaign, Stellar Trek, Morlocs Tower, ODYSSEY: The Compleat Adventure, Microsoft Adventure, and others. There are some excellent non-adventure articles as well: Part 2 on the Micrograph video processor, Computerized testing, Multi-machine computer games, A review of the HP-41C Pocket Computer, etc. Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-12 1980-12 Adventure Cover Index Bonus!

Oh! Scanning with a flatbed scanner would be painful... I focus on throughput when doing scanning - a feeder scanner is much faster and much straighter for magazine pages. Getting pages straight should not be too difficult though.. When you OCR them after processing let the software straighten the pages for you. The scanning software can do this too but I have not had a lot of luck going that route and the OCR works better if you process the pages first... Scan,process to remove bleed, OCR with correction (straighten the pages), fix the pages with OCR problems (about 1 out of 50), OCR the problem pages with "exact" image placement, bookmark, done.

BYTE Vol 03-02 1978-02 Hardware Projects - 596 Pages, 397 Megs This issue of BYTE has a plethora of electronics projects.. Articles include an Address State Analyzer, a $3 Light pen, a minifloppy interface, a digital interface, and using stepper motors. Beyond hardware project there are also articles on simulating motion, a disassembler for the KIM computer, a Tutorial on Boolean Algebra, a second part on brain controlled robotics, and programming entomology. Probably the most interesting articles deal with networking. The first article is entitled "CIE NET: A Design for a Network of Community Information Exchanges Part I", and another article called "Personal Computers in a Communications Network" More interesting stuff in the Nucleus section as well... Download it here: BYTE Vol 03-02 1978-02 Hardware Projects Cover Index Bonus!

The next one was going to be the December 1980 issue on "adventure gaming" but I can swap it with the February 1978 issue "Hardware Projects" (unofficial title). I should have it up tonight sometime. One tidbit of great news: I have been able to obtain an issue #1... Anyway I am going to be out of town for a couple of weeks starting September 3rd and will be sans internet most of the time. My goal is to get six magazines up before I go including the two I mentioned above, plus issues #1, #2, and #9... so lots of good 70's reading coming up. The one remaining issue to put before I go I have not decided on yet..probably the September 1983 portable computing issue.. The #1 and #2 issues will be posted just before I leave.

OK... I finally was able to get a complete upload. The last BYTE magazine (Electronic Office) should be working and complete now. Sorry for the problems..

The last issue should be 397 megs.. It shows that on my side and the transfer did not have any errors. I just checked the web site and it shows only 333 meg.. I am uploading it again now....

OK! the last issue has been fixed and re-uploaded and all the posts with page counts / byte size have been updated. Regarding the question on how far (date wise) to go when scanning I was thinking at least through 1986. I sliced up a March 1986 for scanning today (The one with the Atari ST on the cover).. The articles are still interesting: preview of the 1040ST, Image processing the Titanic, Building a real-time clock, Building a simple windowing system, the new ANSI C Standard, A Macintosh disassembler, One titled "The electronic university, get a degree without leaving your computer".. Reviews of the Kaypro 286i, Modula-2 for Z80 CP/M, Pocket APL, Prolog for MSDOS.. Other Articles: The 68000 wars part I, The Amstrad PCW, two articles by Jerry Pournelle... a bunch of others. Still seems like lots of good stuff in 1986.

Thanks for catching that so fast.. I must have rotated that page accidentally when I was fixing the rotation on some of the others.. I had to rescan some of the pages but I neglected to get those redone.. I will fish the magazine out of the garbage and get those fixed.

BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office - 596 Pages, 397 Megs This issue of BYTE has a focus on the electronic office. Topics include local area networks, the movable conference, electronic publishing, and white-collar productivity. These are in-depth articles on the then-present sate of the art and future predictions. There is another great article following four start-up companies in Silicon Valley: Adaptec, Evotek, The learning company, and Victory computers. In the BYTE lines: Commodore to drop its 16 bit processor and go to the Zilog Z8000? Integrated Software the Key to success (lots of talk about xerox and PARC)? Atari Founder to start Robotics Company? Japan to launch new software development effort.... Not much for the Atari but articles on other 8-bits: Vic-20, TRS-80 Model 100, The TRS-80 Color Computer, the fortune 16:32, and the Corvus Computer. Much much more.. This one is choc full of information goodness Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-05 1983-05 The Electronic Office Cover Index Bonus!

BYTE Vol 05-02 1980-02 Graph Theory - 260 Pages, 179 Megs This issue is on graph theory so if you like math hey here is an issue for you. There is also an article on creating computer controlled dimmer switches and a computer controlled wood stove.. Not my favorite issue but how about that cover? Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-02 1980-02 Graph Theory Cover Index

I am so glad people are enjoying these. I really enjoy reading these while putting them together. I just finished doing an issue today from 1983 that covered the Electronic Office - Best one yet! huge article on networking standards, the upcoming technology of computer based meetings to replace business travel, reviews on the trs-80 model 100, the fortune 16:32, a big feature on the Osborne Executive - was just an awesome read.. I will get it put up before the end of the week. I almost scored an issue #1 this week but the deal fell through... Right now there are a few people putting BYTES up on ebay for crazy crazy prices so the waiting-to-scan stack may not grow much for a while as everyone seems to think that their BYTES are worth their weight in gold. Anyway hopefully we can keep this on the down-low just a tad I have a transfer limit of about 300 gigabytes per week for this and so far we are nowhere near that but with these size of downloads one errant blog post could top it out.

OK So we all agree it was the Sphere right?? JUST KIDDING! BTW: I really enjoyed the last blog on the armchair arcade that was linked a few posts back.

BYTE Vol 08-08 1983-08 The C Programming Language - 578 Pages, 380 Megs (very big!) This issue is all about the C programming language... Including a primer for people new to C (many articles) and comparisons of a couple dozen C compilers for MS-DOS, CP/M-86, CP/M-80, and UNIX. Other articles about the Apple III, a UNIX Tutorial, part 3 of an in-depth look at the 8086 architecture, etc.. Not much on the Atari though the Microbytes had some tidbits on a telecom system for the 2600 and also has news about the Coleco Adam and a Digital Research working on an alternative to the upcoming "Juggernaut" MSX operating system being backed by Microsoft Download it here: BYTE Vol 08-08 1983-08 The C Programming Language Cover Index

BYTE Vol 06-12 1981-12 Computer Games - 548 Pages, 379 Megs (ouch!) This issue has an article from Chris Crawford covering display lists, lots of game reviews for the Atari as well as many other 8-bit machines. Download it here: Byte Vol 06-12 1981-12 Computer Games Cover Index I actually did this scan long ago so it is not one of my best (some streaks) but it is OCR'd and bookmarked like the others.

BYTE Vol 5-08 August 1980 - The Fourth Language - 308 pages, 207 Megs (Previously posted but I moved it) Download it here: BYTE Vol 05-08 1980-08 The Fourth Language Cover Index

BYTE #3 November 1975 Is This Next? - 100 pages, 60 Megs Download it here: BYTE Vol 00-03 1975-11 Is This Next? Hi-lights in this issue: Foreground INS AND OUTS OF VOLATILE MEMORIES COMPUTERS ARE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE COMPUTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO SON OF MOTOROLA (OR, THE $20 CPU CHIP) - A first look at this weird chip called the "6502". Background HEXPAWN - PROJECT IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOTES ON PARALLEL OUTPUT INTERFACES MONITOR 8 1/2 - YOUR OWN PSEUDO INSTRUCTIONS VERSATILE READ ONLY MEMORY PROGRAMMER Nucleus From the Publisher Speaking of Computers Book Reviews Byter's Digest Clubs and Newsletters Diagnostics Letters BOMB Reader's Service Cover Index

Greetings people! As there seemed to be a lot of interest in getting BYTE scanned I thought I would at least give it a stab. BYTE is huge huge huge so I have no time-line. Instead I am focusing on just getting issues scanned and posted. My plan right now is to scan one issue per week and post it to this thread. This post (the start of the thread) will be updated as we go to show the current progress. Since these tend to be large (some of the magazines will run to nearly half a gig) and they are hosted on my site they probably will not be up for more than a few weeks for each magazine (note: so far all magazines listed are still available for download). The idea is that if I quit at some point along the way at least there is a good deal of work done for the next person. I do not plan on scanning these in order. I will mix-up the large/small magazines based on my bandwidth allotment left and time I have to scan on a given week. Below is the current list of BYTE magazines I have to scan and the date the scan was posted on the thread. If there is no posted date then I have not scanned or posted the magazine yet. If the magazine is not listed then I don't have it and I need it. A few people have graciously offered some bandwidth and provided mirrors for these magazines. All of the magazines that have been posted are available on these sites as well as in the downloads in the thread posts themselves. Many thanks to those donating bandwidth! http://files.exotica.org.uk/byte/ ftp://helpedia.com/p...hive/temp/Byte/ http://24.96.150.90/...byte/index.html http://24.96.150.75/...byte/index.html http://76.73.219.7/e...byte/index.html Issue Volume Num Date Pages Size Date Posted to Thread ------------ --- ------ ----- ---- ----------------------- Vol 00 No 1 01 Sep-75 100 62 Posted 2010-08-31 Vol 00 No 2 02 Oct-75 100 56 Posted 2010-08-31 Vol 00 No 3 03 Nov-75 100 60 Posted 2010-08-06 Vol 00 No 4 04 Dec-75 116 68 Posted 2010-10-31 Vol 00 No 5 05 Jan-76 100 58 Posted 2010-12-04 Vol 00 No 6 06 Feb-76 100 55 Posted 2010-12-23 Vol 00 No 7 07 Mar-76 100 56 Posted 2011-01-20 Vol 00 No 8 08 Apr-76 100 58 Posted 2010-01-29 Vol 00 No 9 09 May-76 100 58 Posted 2010-08-27 Vol 00 No 10 10 Jun-76 116 66 Posted 2010-09-15 Vol 00 No 11 11 Jul-76 116 69 Posted 2011-01-29 Vol 00 No 12 12 Aug-76 132 76 Posted 2010-12-24 Vol 00 No 13 13 Sep-76 132 77 Posted 2011-01-30 Vol 00 No 14 14 Oct-76 148 87 Posted 2011-01-31 Vol 00 No 15 15 Nov-76 148 86 Posted 2010-10-01 Vol 00 No 16 16 Dec-76 148 86 Posted 2010-10-14 Vol 02 No 1 17 Jan-77 148 91 Posted 2010-12-29 Vol 02 No 2 18 Feb-77 164 100 Posted 2011-01-31 Vol 02 No 4 20 Apr-77 180 109 Posted 2011-03-13 Vol 02 No 5 21 May-77 180 110 Posted 2011-04-08 Vol 02 No 6 22 Jun-77 184 113 Posted 2011-04-23 Vol 02 No 8 24 Aug-77 180 107 Posted 2010-09-26 Vol 02 No 9 25 Sep-77 228 143 Posted 2010-12-09 Vol 02 No 10 26 Oct-77 212 132 Posted 2010-12-16 Vol 02 No 11 27 Nov-77 260 160 Posted 2013-08-06 Vol 02 No 12 28 Dec-77 228 143 Posted 2011-01-25 Vol 03 No 1 29 Jan-78 194 121 Posted 2011-02-21 Vol 03 No 2 30 Feb-78 212 131 Posted 2010-08-22 Vol 03 No 3 31 Mar-78 228 154 Posted 2011-03-10 Vol 03 No 4 32 Apr-78 212 133 Posted 2013-11-11 Vol 03 No 5 33 May-78 Vol 03 No 6 34 Jun-78 212 133 Posted 2011-05-08 Vol 03 No 7 35 Jul-78 Vol 03 No 8 36 Aug-78 212 128 Posted 2010-12-19 Vol 03 No 9 37 Sep-78 212 130 Posted 2011-03-05 Vol 03 No 10 38 Oct-78 Vol 03 No 11 39 Nov-78 Vol 03 No 12 40 Dec-78 Vol 04 No 1 41 Jan-79 228 151 Posted 2011-03-06 Vol 04 No 2 42 Feb-79 236 150 Posted 2011-03-20 Vol 04 No 3 43 Mar-79 276 174 Posted 2011-04-15 Vol 04 No 4 44 Apr-79 284 176 Posted 2011-01-07 Vol 04 No 5 45 May-79 292 183 Posted 2011-04-28 Vol 04 No 6 46 Jun-79 288 184 Posted 2011-01-20 Vol 04 No 7 47 Jul-79 276 175 Posted 2013-09-30 Vol 04 No 8 48 Aug-79 268 180 Posted 2013-08-08 Vol 04 No 9 49 Sep-79 260 176 Posted 2010-12-27 Vol 05 No 1 53 Jan-80 276 182 Posted 2010-09-18 Vol 05 No 2 54 Feb-80 260 179 Posted 2010-08-15 Vol 05 No 3 55 Mar-80 294 200 Posted 2010-10-08 Vol 05 No 4 56 Apr-80 308 204 Posted 2010-11-24 Vol 05 No 5 57 May-80 344 221 Posted 2011-04-03 Vol 05 No 6 58 Jun-80 Vol 05 No 7 59 Jul-80 Vol 05 No 8 60 Aug-80 308 207 Posted 2010-08-06 Vol 05 No 9 61 Sep-80 Vol 05 No 10 62 Oct-80 404 281 Posted 2010-11-19 Vol 05 No 11 63 Nov-80 Vol 05 No 12 64 Dec-80 404 276 Posted 2010-08-25 Vol 06 No 1 65 Jan-81 Vol 06 No 2 66 Feb-81 524 337 Posted 2013-10-14 Vol 06 No 3 67 Mar-81 Vol 06 No 4 68 Apr-81 418 279 Posted 2010-09-23 Vol 06 No 5 69 May-81 Vol 06 No 7 71 Jul-81 Vol 06 No 8 72 Aug-81 496 327 Posted 2011-05-10 Vol 06 No 9 73 Sep-81 500 330 Posted 2011-08-20 Vol 06 No 10 74 Oct-81 530 345 Posted 2011-08-27 Vol 06 No 11 75 Nov-81 572 377 Posted 2011-09-05 Vol 06 No 12 76 Dec-81 548 379 Posted 2010-08-07 Vol 07 No 3 79 Mar-82 532 353 Posted 2011-03-17 Vol 07 No 4 80 Apr-82 548 369 Posted 2013-08-29 Vol 07 No 5 81 May-82 548 342 Posted 2013-09-10 Vol 07 No 6 82 Jun-82 564 373 Posted 2010-10-23 Vol 07 No 7 83 Jul-82 Vol 07 No 8 84 Aug-82 Vol 07 No 10 86 Oct-82 532 349 Posted 2013-08-22 Vol 07 No 11 87 Nov-82 636 428 Posted 2011-01-02 Vol 07 No 12 88 Dec-82 596 402 Posted 2011-04-10 Vol 08 No 2 ?? Feb-83 Vol 08 No 5 ?? May-83 596 397 Posted 2010-08-18 Vol 08 No 8 ?? Aug-83 578 380 Posted 2010-08-12 Vol 08 No 9 ?? Sep-83 674 442 Posted 2010-08-29 Vol 08 No 10 ?? Oct-83 676 462 Posted 2010-11-28 Vol 08 No 12 ?? Dec-83 660 456 Posted 2011-03-11 Vol 09 No 1 ?? Jan-84 Vol 09 No 2 ?? Feb-84 548 386 Posted 2011-01-13 Vol 09 No 3 ?? Mar-84 Vol 09 No 4 ?? Apr-84 Vol 09 No 5 ?? May-84 586 404 Posted 2011-03-25 Vol 09 No 6 ?? Jun-84 Vol 09 No 7 ?? Jul-84 456 313 Posted 2013-11-04 ** Last 16 pages missing ** Vol 09 No 9 ?? Spec 298 192 Posted 2011-05-08 Vol 09 No 10 ?? Sep-84 536 355 Posted 2013-11-25 ** Latest ** Vol 09 No 11 ?? Oct-84 Vol 09 No 12 ?? Nov-84 Vol 10 No 1 ?? Jan-85 500 335 Posted 2013-08-15 Vol 10 No 4 ?? Apr-85 Vol 10 No 5 ?? May-85 544 344 Posted 2013-10-07 Vol 10 No 6 ?? Jun-85 Vol 10 No 7 ?? Jul-85 490 324 Posted 2013-10-21 Vol 10 No 8 ?? Aug-85 Vol 10 No 9 ?? Sep-85 494 333 Posted 2013-10-28 Vol 10 No 10 ?? Nov-85 Vol 10 No 11 ?? Spec 310 209 Posted 2010-12-04 Vol 10 No 12 ?? Nov-85 Vol 11 No 1 ?? Jan-86 478 323 Posted 2013-09-06 Vol 11 No 2 ?? Feb-86 Vol 11 No 3 ?? Mar-86 480 327 Posted 2010-09-14 Vol 11 No 4 ?? Apr-86 Vol 11 No 5 ?? May-86 Vol 11 No 6 ?? Jun-86 464 318 Posted 2010-12-09 Vol 11 No 7 ?? Jul-86 Vol 11 No 8 ?? Aug-86 Vol 11 No 9 ?? Sep-86 478 331 Posted 2011-03-07 Vol 11 No 10 ?? Oct-86 418 282 Posted 2013-11-18 Vol 11 No 12 ?? Nov-86 Vol 11 No 13 ?? Dec-86 458 322 Posted 2011-04-19 Notes on issue numbers: BYTE did not use volume numbers for the first sixteen issues. These are labeled as Vol 00-##. Issue Vol 2-01 is the 17th issue. BYTE had several years where 13 issues were produced. These will be highlighted as they pop up.

I mostly shot video, my brother did a lot of picture taking and I have not gone through his pictures yet (several hundred). I did take a hundred or so myself.. Here are a quick few, I will have more later (I wanted to be first!): Two kids playing vectrex and Virtual Boy Some guy playing Halo 2600 Guy playing Banjo with a Commodore 64 helping: This is me with a couple of robots in the museum area. I have lots of pictures of me drooling over the 1450XLD, 1090 Expansion bus, and 815 disk drive if anyone is really interested?? Didn't think so The Sonic and Tank costumes.. I only talked to the guy in the Sonic costume. Nice guy.

Where did you find the info saying they put BASIC on an EPROM? Third Column first paragraph: Digibarn Scan of Oct 1975 BYTE magazine page

Something very interesting and for the most part unrelated: Looking for a video of the Sphere I ran into an article about the first "home computer game" created by the Adams brothers. One went on to create Happy computer (happy drive!) and the other went to form Adventure international. Scott Adams created his first home games on a Sphere Computer in 1976 by the way Anyway! the hand written code for that first game he sold for 195,700 dollars! Here is the article: Adams Article and the scans of the code: Expensive Code

Man I hate re-reading my previous posts in quotes and seeing how many words I mispelled (I forgot to hit the check spelling key) From the number of full page (and multi-page) ads I saw from Sphere over an extended period in numerous old BYTE mags I am suprised at the small number of systems they sold. Good engineers, Great marketers, crappy production lines! I really wish more of the early computer magazines were archived and searchable online.. Though it does seem pretty apparent that a lot of people had the same great ideas in 1975/1976 and tried to get some attention by announcing systems well before they were ready to ship.

"Usable" may be a stretch but there is a metion about it in an old InfoWorld Article The paragraph metioning it is at the bottom of the middle column. Basically it says that the BASIC was really slow, that a few were delivered to computer stores, then the company was gone *poof*. I agree there may need to be a definition of a minimum quanity.. What would the number be? I think the sol sold somwhere in the 20,000 range?

Holy crap you people take these things seriously! The conversation was previouisly talking about the Apple II, the TRS-80, and the PET when someone brought up the SOL-20 and there seemed to be general consenses that it qualified. If the SOL-20 qualifies then the Sphere should qualify in my opinion. Most of us (here anyway) know that the Altair and IMSAI preceded these machines but nobody was bringing them up. When you look at the sphere it has all the qualities of the machines that were being discussed. There are people that had completed systems delivered in late 1975/early 1976 (there is some question on kits to compeleted systems for dates)... Not very many to be sure but they were out there. The build quality appeared to be poor (many DOA systems that had to be fixed) and the price was higher than some of thier eventual competitors and the BASIC was buggy. They were a small shop and did not know how to expand their assembly line - they were built by hand so it was slow and expensive and they went out of business. That doesn't mean they were not the first "all-in-one" out there.