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Indeed. Complaining about the ads in Byte would have been like complaining about the ads in the yellow pages.

Byte almost was reverse Playboy: you almost didn’t read it for the articles.




Even more true for Computer Shopper! At its peak it was probably an inch thick every month, and 99% ads. But in pre-Internet days, very useful.


Really! the articles where the main point - just whish I had had the nerve to use the $25 diy modem Steve Garcia for one project instead of paying £300 for an answer and £600 for an answer originate.


>Steve Garcia

Steve Ciarcia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia

His BYTE electronics DIY project articles in his Circuit Cellar column were so well-written that I used to enjoy browsing them even though I'm not an electronics guy, gleaning what I could about the topic. He even did one about a 32-bit computer, when 8 and 16 bits were still the standard! The Definicon motherboard/CPU, I think it was about.





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