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Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:52
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On 2018-03-07, David Jones <djon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use to love the old Byte magazines.  Like others have said,
> I'd read it from cover to cover and couldn't wait the new issue.
> It's a shame when it started the death spiral.  I even still have
> all my copies from when I first started subscribing.

I've kept some copies from the good old days, but with only a couple
of exceptions, everything from their Wintel phase went into the
recycle bin.

> Anyone remember their failed attempt to create their own version
> of compuserve/aol?

Not me.  I went from local BBSes to Usenet, with the help of
a local BBS that made several newsgroups (including this one)
look like more of its local groups.

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From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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Subject: Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
Date: 7 Mar 2018 16:52:36 GMT
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