Random question about a Byte Magazine Cover

Mark Wickens mark at wickensonline.co.uk
Sun Dec 6 18:35:26 CST 2015


I think I found it:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAxN1g3Mzg=/z/1AwAAOSwpDdVIqur/$_57.JPG

Practical Computing March 1982!

Mark.

On 25/11/15 15:40, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 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.
>



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