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Article #621067Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:31
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:31
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On 2018-03-01, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > On 2/28/2018 5:51 PM, Peter Flass wrote: > >> Looking at the TOC reminded me how much I used to like Byte in the old >> days, before they went over to the dark side. > > Yes! BYTE was wonderful and stimulating when it had substantive content > instead of just advertising pieces. Although it was kind of good to > download source code, the cessation of printing source code with the > articles was a step away from substantive programming articles. I used to read it religiously every month. Then one day I woke up and realized it had turned into Yet Another Wintel Rag, and gave it up. Before long, enough others relized this that it folded. It was a sad end for what was once such an enjoyable magazine. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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