''Byte'' (stylized as ''BYTE'') was a
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (PC ...
magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...
, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.
[ "''Byte'' magazine, the leading publication serving the homebrew market ..."]
''Byte'' started in 1975, shortly after the
first personal computers appeared as kits advertised in the back of electronics magazines. ''Byte'' was published monthly, with an initial yearly subscription price of $10. Whereas many magazines were dedicated to specific systems or the home or business users' perspective, ''Byte'' covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
s and
high-reliability computing. Coverage was in-depth with much technical detail, rather than user-oriented.
The company was purchased by
McGraw-Hill
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...
in 1979, a watershed event that led to the rapid purchase of many of the early computer magazines by larger publishers. By this time the magazine had taken on a more serious
journal-like atmosphere and began to refer to itself as "the small systems journal". It became an influential publication; ''Byte'' was selected as the medium used by
Xerox PARC
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...
to publicize
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. It was designed and created in part for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Ka ...
in 1981.
Like many generalist magazines, ''Byte'' suffered in the 1990s due to declining advertising sales. McGraw-Hill's publishing arm was sold to
CMP Media
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as ...
in May 1998, and the new owners immediately laid off almost everyone in the magazine arm, ending publication with the already-complete July edition. The associated website continued to draw 600,000 page views a month, prompting the owners to re-open the magazine in a pure online format in 1999. It continued as an online publication until 2009 when it shut down, only to be revived in 2011 and then shut down for good in 2013.
Foundation
Wayne Green
Wayne Sanger Green II (September 3, 1922 – September 13, 2013) was an American publisher, writer, and consultant. Green was editor of '' CQ'' magazine before he went on to found '' 73'', ''80 Micro'', ''Byte'', '' CD Review'', ''Cold Fusion'', ...
was the editor and publisher of
amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communic ...
magazine ''
73''. In late 1974 and throughout 1975, ''73'' published a number of articles on the use of computers, which resulted in a significant response from the readers. The
Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by mail order through advertiseme ...
was announced in January 1975, sparking off intense interest among those working technical fields, including the amateur radio market. Green knew of the Altair because
MITS had previously been an advertiser in ''73''. This led Green to begin plans for a magazine dedicated to the newly emerging
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (PC ...
market.
In 1974, Carl Helmers published a series of six articles that detailed the design and construction of his "Experimenter's Computer System", a personal computer based on the
Intel 8008
The Intel 8008 ("''eight-thousand-eight''" or "''eighty-oh-eight''") is an early byte-oriented microprocessor designed by Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), implemented and manufactured by Intel, and introduced in April 1972. It is an 8-bit C ...
microprocessor. In January 1975 this became the monthly ''ECS'' magazine with 400 subscribers. Green contacted Helmers and proposed starting a new magazine to be known as Byte. The deal was announced in both magazines in May.
Green's editorial column in the August 1975 issue of ''73'' started with this item:
The response to computer-type articles in ''73'' has been so enthusiastic that we here in Peterborough got carried away. On May 25th we made a deal with the publisher of a small (400 circulation) computer hobby magazine to take over as editor of a new publication which would start in August ... ''Byte''.
The last issue of ''ECS'' was published on 12 May 1975. In June, subscribers were mailed a notice announcing ''Byte'' magazine. Helmers wrote to another hobbyist newsletter, ''Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter'', and described his new job as editor of ''Byte'' magazine:
I got a note in the mail about two weeks ago from Wayne Green, publisher of '73 Magazine' essentially saying hello and why don't you come up and talk a bit. The net result of a follow up is the decision to create BYTE magazine using the facilities of Green Publishing Inc. I will end up with the editorial focus for the magazine; with the business end being managed by Green Publishing.[ :File:Micro-8 June 27 1975.png]
To advertise the new magazine, Green contacted a number of the companies that had been advertising in ''73'' and asked for their contact lists. He then sent letters out to these people telling them about the new magazine. This resulted in about 20% of the contacts subscribing, a massive conversion rate.
Early editions, formation of Kilobaud
Just prior to planning ''Byte'', Green had a run-in with the
Internal Revenue Service
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. When he told his lawyer that he planned on starting a new magazine, he was advised to put it in someone else's name. He had recently gotten back together with his ex-wife,
Virginia Londner Green Virginia Williamson (also Virginia Londner Green and Virginia Peschke) was the co-founder, owner and publisher of ''Byte'' magazine. She founded the magazine in 1975 together with her ex-husband, Wayne Green the founder/publisher of the amateur rad ...
, who had been listed as the business manager of 73 Inc. since December 1974.
[ Virginia Londner Green is listed as Business Manager.] She incorporated
Green Publishing Virginia Williamson (also Virginia Londner Green and Virginia Peschke) was the co-founder, owner and publisher of ''Byte'' magazine. She founded the magazine in 1975 together with her ex-husband, Wayne Green the founder/publisher of the amateur rad ...
in March 1975 to take over publication.
[ Green Publishing, Inc. was incorporated on March 7, 1975.]
The first issue of the new magazine was the September 1975 edition. Articles in the first issue included ''Which Microprocessor For You?'' by
Hal Chamberlin
Howard Allen Chamberlin, Jr. is an American audio engineer and writer from North Carolina, most widely known as the author of the book ''Musical Applications of Microprocessors''.
Biography
In the 1970s while still at school he built an analog ...
, ''Write Your Own Assembler'' by
Dan Fylstra
Dan Fylstra is a pioneer of the software products industry.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1975 he was a founding associate editor of ''Byte'' magazine. In 1978 he co-founded Personal Software, and that year reviewed ...
and ''Serial Interface'' by
Don Lancaster
Donald E. Lancaster is an American author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer.
Background
Lancaster is a writer and engineer, who authored multiple articles for computer and electronics magazines of the 1970s, including ''Popular Electronics' ...
. Among the more important articles was the introduction of the
Kansas City standard
The Kansas City standard (KCS), or ''Byte'' standard, is a data storage protocol for standard cassette tapes at . It originated in a symposium sponsored by Byte (magazine), ''Byte'' magazine in November 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri to develop a ...
for storing data on
cassette tape
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens ...
, which was used by most machines of the era. It included advertisements from
Godbout
Godbout is a village municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the mouth of the Godbout River on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
Godbout is accessible via Quebec Route 138 and by ferry from Matane.
E ...
,
MITS,
Processor Technology
Processor Technology Corporation was a personal computer company founded in April 1975 by Gary Ingram and Bob Marsh in Berkeley, California. Their first product was a 4K byte RAM board that was compatible with the MITS Altair 8800 computer but mo ...
,
SCELBI
SCELBI was an early model of microcomputer based on the Intel 8008 processor. The company SCELBI (derived from SCIentific-ELectronics-BIology) Computer Consulting in 1973, by Nat Wadsworth. The SCELBI 8H was marketed in 1974 and was delivered eith ...
, and
Sphere
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, among others.
Until the December 1988 issue, a continuing feature was ''Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar'', a column in which electronic engineer
Steve Ciarcia described small projects to modify or attach to a computer. This was later spun off to become the magazine ''Circuit Cellar'', focusing on
embedded computer applications. Significant articles in this period included the insertion of
floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined w ...
drives into
S-100 computers, publication of source code for various computer languages (Tiny
C,
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...
,
assemblers
Assembler may refer to:
Arts and media
* Nobukazu Takemura, avant-garde electronic musician, stage name Assembler
* Assemblers, a fictional race in the ''Star Wars'' universe
* Assemblers, an alternative name of the superhero group Champions of A ...
), and coverage of the first microcomputer
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
,
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
.
The first four issues were produced in the offices of ''73'' and Wayne Green was listed as the publisher. One day in November 1975 Green came back to the office and found that the ''Byte'' magazine staff had moved out and taken the January issue with them.
For the February 1976 issue, the company changed its name to Byte Publications.
[Copyright catalogs at the Library of Congress for ]Byte magazine
''Byte'' (stylized as ''BYTE'') was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. "''Byte'' magazine, the leading publication serving the homebrew market ..."
'' ...
. Carl Helmers was a co-owner of Byte Publications.
[ Virginia Peschke and Carl Helmers are the owners of Byte Publications.] The February issue has a short story about the move; "After a start which reads like a romantic light opera with an episode or two reminiscent of the
Keystone Cops
The Keystone Cops (often spelled "Keystone Kops") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
History
The idea for the ...
, ''Byte'' magazine finally has moved into separate offices of its own."
Green was not happy about losing ''Byte'' and decided to start a new magazine called ''Kilobyte''. He announced these intentions early, and advertised the upcoming magazine in ''73'', with the goal of shipping the first issue in December 1976 (the January 1977 edition).
[ Two page ad describing the new KILOBYTE magazine.] ''Byte'' quickly took out a trademark on "KILOBYTE" as the name for a cartoon series in ''Byte'' magazine, and threatened to sue for trademark violations. This forced Green to change the name of the new magazine to ''
Kilobaud''. There was competition and animosity between Byte Publications and 73 Inc. but both remained in the small town of
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,418 at the 2020 census. The main village, with 3,090 people at the 2020 census, is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place (CDP) and ...
.
Growth and change
In April 1979, owner/publisher Virginia Williamson (née Londner Green) sold ''Byte'' to
McGraw-Hill
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...
. At the time, ''Bytes paid circulation was 156,000 readers, making it second only to ''
Business Week
''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...
'' in the McGraw-Hill's technology magazine portfolio. She remained publisher until 1983 and became a vice president of McGraw-Hill Publications Company. From August 1979, the magazine switched to computerized typesetting, using a
Compugraphic
Compugraphic Corporation, commonly called cg, was an American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded. This company is distinct from Compugraph ...
system. Shortly after the
IBM PC
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team ...
was introduced, in 1981, the magazine changed editorial policies. It gradually de-emphasized the do-it-yourself electronics and software articles, and began running product reviews. It continued its wide-ranging coverage of hardware and software, but now it reported "what it does" and "how it works", not "how to do it". The editorial focus remained on
home
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and
personal computer
A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose microcomputer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or tec ...
s.
By the early 1980s, ''Byte'' had become an "elite" magazine, seen as a peer of ''
Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
'' and ''
Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother.
K ...
'', and others such as
David Bunnell
David Hugh Bunnell (July 25, 1947 – October 18, 2016) was a pioneer of the personal computing industry who founded some of the most successful computer magazines including ''PC Magazine'', ''PC World'', and ''Macworld''. In 1975, he was wo ...
of ''
PC Magazine
''PC Magazine'' (shortened as ''PCMag'') is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and have continued to the present d ...
'' aspired to emulate its reputation and success.
It was the only computer publication on the 1981 Folio 400 list of largest magazines. ''Byte''s 1982 average number of pages was 543, and the number of paid advertising pages grew by more than 1,000 while most magazines' amount of advertising did not change. Its circulation of 420,000 was the third highest of all computer magazines.
''Byte'' earned $9 million from revenue of $36.6 million in 1983, twice the average profit margin for the magazine industry. It remained successful while many other magazines failed in 1984 during economic weakness in the computer industry. The October 1984 issue had about 300 pages of ads sold at an average of $6,000 per page.
Starting with the December 1975 issue and toward the end of 1987, ''Byte'' covers featured the artwork of
Robert Tinney. These covers made ''Byte'' visually unique. In 1987, Tinney's paintings were replaced by product photographs, although Tinney's paintings continued to appear in the magazine's advertisement space until 1989.
Around 1985, ''Byte'' started an online service called
BIX
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer.
Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical app ...
(''Byte'' Information eXchange) which was a text-only
BBS-style site running on the
CoSy conferencing software, also used by McGraw-Hill internally. Access was via local dial-in or, for additional hourly charges, the
Tymnet
Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in Cupertino, California that used virtual call packet-switched technology and X.25, SNA/ SDLC, BSC and Async interfaces to connect host computers (servers) at thousands of lar ...
X.25
X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet-switched data communication in wide area networks (WAN). It was originally defined by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT, now ITU-T) in a series of drafts ...
network. Monthly rates were $13/month for the account and $1/hour for X.25 access. Unlike
CompuServe
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the oth ...
, access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Later,
gateways permitted
email
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communication outside the system.
By 1990, the magazine was about half an inch in thickness and had a subscription price of $56/year. Around 1993, ''Byte'' began to develop a
web
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
* WEB, a literate programming system created by ...
presence. It acquired the domain name byte.com and began to host
discussion boards and post selected editorial content.
Editions were published in
Japan
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,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, and an Arabic edition was published in Jordan.
End of print publication, online shift, and demise
The readership of ''Byte'' and advertising revenue were declining when McGraw-Hill sold the magazine to
CMP Media
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as ...
, a successful publisher of specialized computer magazines, in May 1998. The magazine's editors and writers expected its new owner to revitalize ''Byte'', but CMP ceased publication with the July 1998 issue, laid off all the staff and shut down ''Byte''s rather large product-testing lab.
Publication of ''Byte'' in
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
continued uninterrupted. The Turkish edition resumed publication after a few years of interruption. The Arabic edition also ended abruptly.
[Tom's Unofficial ''Byte'' FAQ:The Death of ''Byte'' Magazine](_blank)
by former ''Byte'' journalist Tom R. Halfhill, on his personal website
Many of ''Byte''s columnists migrated their writing to personal web sites. One such site was
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
author
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s ...
's
weblog
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''The View From Chaos Manor'' derived from a long-standing column in ''Byte'', describing computers from a
power user
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's point of view. After the closure of ''Byte'' magazine, Pournelle's column continued to be published in the Turkish editions of ''PC World'', which was soon renamed as ''PC Life'' in Turkey. ''Nikkei Byte'', with the name licensed from McGraw Hill, was the leading computer magazine in Japan, published by
Nikkei Business Publications
, commonly known as , is a book and magazine publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established as , a joint venture of Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) and McGraw-Hill in 1969, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikkei in 1988.
Nik ...
. It continued Pournelle's column in translation as a major feature for years after ''Byte'' closed in the U.S.
In 1999, CMP revived ''Byte'' as a web-only publication, from 2002
accessible by subscription. It closed in 2009.
UBM TechWeb
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as ...
brought the ''Byte'' name back when it officially relaunched ''Byte'' as Byte.com on July 11, 2011. According to the site, the mission of the new ''Byte'' was:
...to examine technology in the context of the consumerization of IT. The subject relates closely to important IT issues like security and manageability. It's an issue that reaches both IT and users, and it's an issue where both groups need to listen carefully to the requirements of the other: IT may wish to hold off on allowing devices and software onto the network when they haven't been properly tested and can't be properly supported. But the use of these devices in the enterprise has the air of inevitability for a good reason. They make users more productive and users are demanding them.
The Byte.com launch editor-in-chief was tech journalist
Gina Smith
Gina Smith (born November 11, 1957) is a Canadian equestrian. She won a team bronze medal as part of the Canadian Equestrian Team in dressage at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with teammates Cynthia Neale-Ishoy, Eva Pracht and A ...
. On September 26, 2011 Smith was replaced by Larry Seltzer. In January 2012 American
science fiction
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and
horror author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
F. Paul Wilson
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began writing for byte.com, mostly in the persona of his best-known character
Repairman Jack
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This series of novels uses realistic ...
.
Byte.com closed in 2013.
References
Citations
Bibliography
*
Further reading
*
External links
*
HomeLibOnline index for early issues of ''Byte'' by Sami Rautiainen
"VC&G Interview: Robert Tinney, ''Byte'' Cover Artist and Microcomputer Illustration Pioneer"€”Vintage Computing and Gaming
BYTE magazine scans in PDFand JPEG
Byte magazine (1975–1998)€”Online index of articles and covers
Vintage ''Byte'' Magazine Library€”Complete collection of scanned ''Byte'' magazines from 1975 to 1998 at Vintage Apple
Circuit CellarSpinoff magazine from a ''Byte'' column.
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