Random question about a Byte Magazine Cover

Eric Christopherson echristopherson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 09:40:14 CST 2015


On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:

> OK so this has been bugging me for a while. During a stint working at
> Morgan-Smith Electronics in Hatfield UK (they made diverse electronic
> systems including industrial PCs and radio alarms) I went through the
> boss's discarded vintage computer magazine collection and one particular
> issue I remember finding very interesting.
>
> IIRC it was a Byte Magazine (certainly the graphic was very in keeping with
> Byte cover artwork). I wonder if anyone recalls it - Google image searches
> have pulled a blank which means it either wasn't Byte (and just looked like
> it) or hasn't been scanned.
>
> The cover had a painted image of a white cliff face draped in vines with an
> 'Adventurer' in the foreground - you can imagine what the theme was. Anyone
> have any ideas? Maybe it wasn't Byte?
>
> Of course all this really quite irrelevant in the grand scheme of things,
> but it would help me scratch an itch at the very least.
>
> Thanks! Mark.
>

I'm all too familiar with that kind of itch. I'm glad we have this forum to
at least attempt to find answers; hope you find yours.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson


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