Byte Magazine

[Dave]

 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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Rescans of issues found within the BYTE Magazine collection. Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influen...
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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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