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Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. [1] 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 ...
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, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN, InCider, and Pico, as well as publishing books and running Instant Software.
Type-in program. A type-in program or type-in listing was computer source code printed in a home computer magazine or book. It was meant to be entered via the keyboard by the reader and then saved to cassette tape or floppy disk. The result was a usable game, utility, or application program. Type-in programs were common in the home computer era ...
List of file signatures. This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible.
A string that consists of a number of bits, treated as a unit, and usually representing a character or a part of a character. 1 The number of bits in a byte is fixed for a given data processing system. 2 The number of bits in a byte is usually 8. ^ "Internet History of 1960s # 1964".
0192-4575. Kilobaud Microcomputing was a magazine dedicated to the computer homebrew hobbyists from 1977 to 1983. [1] It was one of the three influential computer magazines of the 1970s, along with BYTE and Creative Computing. It focused mostly on the kit-build market, rather than the pre-assembled home computers that emerged, and as the kit ...
The serial interface and cassette data storage article in the first issue of Byte was written by Don Lancaster. Wayne wanted a magazine that a beginner could read but Carl wanted a more technical magazine. Lucky for Carl (and the readers) the magazine was in Virginia Greens name.
ComputorEdge Magazine. ComputorEdge Magazine was first published on May 16, 1983 as The Byte Buyer in San Diego, California. It was one of the first local free distribution magazines in the United States devoted to the microcomputer. In 1988, in a dispute with the now defunct Byte Magazine, the magazine name was changed to ComputorEdge .