Byte magazine

BYTE magazine was probably the most influentual microcomputer magazine in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-80s to date have been dedicated to the Wintel platform or the Mac, mostly from a business user's perspective, BYTE covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes included in-depth features on other computing fields as well, such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing.

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Microcomputer - Magazine - 1970s - 1980s - Wintel - Mac

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BYTE started in 1975, shortly after the first personal computers appeared as kits in the back of electronics magazines. BYTE was published monthly, with a yearly subscription price of $10. Carl Helmers was undisputedly the founding editor. Who was the founding publisher is a more complicated story.

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