Blasts From The Past

5 YEARS AGO IN BYTE

Gateway's 66-MHz 486DX2-based PC with 8 MB of RAM, a 14-inch monitor, and a 500-MB hard drive cost $3795. Microsoft's Video for Windows helped move PC video mo re into the mainstream. Apple's new Duo Macs could be a notebook or a desktop.

10 YEARS AGO IN BYTE

Apple's new HyperCard offered an easy-to-use English-like scripting language that allowed nonprofessionals to write useful programs.

15 YEARS AGO IN BYTE

The $3950 Athena I CP/M-based portable computer ran on two 2.5-MHz NSC-800 processors, had 68 KB of RAM, 512 KB of mass storage, and, at its 15-pound weight, was truly portable. The personal computer as coinless arcade? We devoted eight pages to popular computer games. PC graphics have come a long way since the early days of Luke Skywalker.

20 YEARS AGO IN BYTE

Computers and Star Trek : Will computers be able to retrieve an answer to any factual question in a matter of seconds in the twenty-third century? Probably. As the article said, science fiction often predicts scientific fact.

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December 1992

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December 1987

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December 1982

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December 1977

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We've Come A Long Way

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