Byte Magazine
Dave
dfnr2 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 31 03:37:18 CDT 2019
You may want to take a look at the byte collection at the internet archive: BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Comparing the first issue side-by-side, I think the Internet Archive version is a different scan. It is better quality. The letters have more uniform density than the American Radio History version. Also, they have a page of byte re-scans; I'm not sure what issues are addressed by the rescans. BYTE Magazine Rescans : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
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BYTE Magazine Rescans : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming...
Rescans of issues found within the BYTE Magazine collection. Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influen...
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BYTE Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Inter...
Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of it...
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On Friday, March 29, 2019, 5:57:49 AM CDT, Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
In a previous thread I asked for a couple of specific pages from Byte magazine, which I got (thanks to all, especially Peter, for helping out!) But that brings up a bigger issue (no pun intended.)
About a year ago I found the Byte scans on americanradiohistory.org and started reading from the start. I found that those scans were less than great, with many missing pages, pages out of order, pages scanned at resolutions too low to read, and a few other problems. I went searching the web for other scans and, with a few exceptions for individual issues, found that ALL the collections of scans seemed to be the same ones, with the same bad pages.
I certainly appreciate the considerable effort of whoever did those scans, but I think Byte is too important to not have good scans available. Perhaps a project to get those good scans created would be something worthwhile for the members of this list to take on. I realize what a huge project it is. Just going through the currently available scans to find which pages are bad or missing is a large and time-consuming effort. But my opinion is that it is important and worthwhile.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Will
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