PET to S100 bus interface

It was thus said that the Great Doug Spence once stated: Maybe. But be wary of getting a complete collection though. While I haven't read a Byte magazine in several years, (since the early 90s), those that I have seen I tend to group into three catagories: 1. Hobby Era (start of publication to late 83/early 84) Many articles about specific machines, hardware and software wise. Most program listings are in assembly or BASIC, although you will find the occasional Lisp, Forth or (Tiny)-C listing. The peak is ~79/80. 2. Journal Era (early 84 to late 87/early 88) More scholarly type articles (more like papers), less hardware and hobbiest oriented articles abound. More theory related articles. The peak is ~85/86. 3. PC Rag Era (early 88 through the 90s) This actually started with the introduction of the IBM PS/2 line in late 87, although the real shift wasn't noticible until sometime in 88. The emphasis shifted more towards product reviews, mostly PCs and PC related hardware/software. I stopped reading Byte in early to mid 90 and haven't really looked at it since, so it might have shifted once again. My own collection of Byte starts with August of 85 (Amiga 1000 is the cover story) and ends somewhere in late 89 or early 90. The library at the university I attended had issues starting from Jan '77 (which I read 8-). The dates given here are approximate, looking at a Byte from 1980, then 1985 then 1990 will show almost three different magazines. -spc (It started sliding when Robert Tinney stopped doing magazine covers, (~87) then it nose dived once Steve Ciarcia stopped writing hardware articles, (~88 or 89) although there are some that think it started way back in '77 when Pournelle started his column)