March 1997 / Blasts From The Past

5 Years Ago in BYTE March 1992	Seven out of nine portables capable of running Windows in a review used the 386SX/20 processor (the other two used the 486SX/20 and the 386SL/25).
10 Years Ago in BYTE Table 1 Figure 1 March 1987	We liked Borland's Turbo Basic, which provided better support for Intel's 8087 numeric coprocessor than Microsoft's Basic.
15 Years Ago in BYTE March 1982	The new $895 Smith-Corona TP-1 daisy-wheel printer (average speed about 12 characters per second) and other printers heralded a new era of affordable word processing computer systems.
20 Years Ago in BYTE March 1977 The Early BYTE Family Translation Still Presents Editorial Difficulties	We continued our tutorial on the digital-cassette subsystem.

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