Summer soundtrack
BYTE Magazine, July 1987. Worth checking the editorial that presents the annual BYTE readers survey.
The volume theme is LANs. Connecting computers together was far from trivial. (Consider that the survey mentions that among these highly educated, tech savvy, computer geeks, "17.2% have LAN hardware, and another 16.5% are planning to buy some"...)
The nonabytes clip is kind of funny by today standards.
BYTE Magazine, June 1987. Main theme was IBM PS/2.
IBM had a glossy, multipage ad that started like this "In 1981, we introduced the world's most successful personal computer. Here we go again." Turns out, it didn't work as planned.
Worth reading the Editorial, to get a feeling of what was going on at the time.
In the same issue, there was a two-page ad from 3M: "Announcing the world's largest 3.5 inch diskette." The attached image wouldn't fit on it.
BYTE Magazine, May 1987.
BYTE Magazine, April 1987.
No one could tell back then, but the two stories in the April 1987 issue cover would eventually converge, decades later. The Instructions Sets Strategies special section gives us a glimpse at a chip developed by Acorn, a subsidiary of Olivetti (!), called ARM. This is where Apple Silicon started...
BYTE Magazine, March 1987.
And a great, double page ad from IBM from the same issue.
BYTE Magazine, February 1987. Cover, Editorial and a snippet from the "microbytes" page. Plus back page ad (RadioShack as usual).
BYTE Magazine, January 1987. Cover and Editorial.
(I'll be posting every month, from 37 years ago if you like the idea)
