Sherman, set the WayBack machine to 1975: Saigon had just fallen and the United States had messily withdrawn from Vietnam; the last Apollo mission had flown (it was the first docking between U.S. and Soviet manned spacecraft); and the Concord began commercial supersonic passenger service.
In September 1975: BYTE's first issue carried these cover lines (see image below):
Computers -- The World's Greatest Toy!
Which Microprocessor For You?
Cassette Interface -- Your Way To Inexpensive Bulk Memory
Assembling Your Assembler
Can You Use Surplus Keyboards? (You bet you can!)
Cover of the first BYTE Magazine. Click to enlarge.
And in its slender 96 pages, you could find ads for $19 solderless breadboards; $10 logic probe kits, the Scelbi 8-bit "mini computer" ($850 for a 4K CPU unit with no interfaces, software or anything else); a contest from Godbout Electronics where the winner would receive a 16-bit microcomputer chip (not a system -- just a chip); and perhaps the piece de resistance: a Sphere computer. This little beauty was equipped with BASIC, 20K of memory, a 512 character CRT driver (but no CRT), keyboard, modem and a cassette interface -- for $1,345.00, or about what you pay for a low-end 500-MHz Pentium III today!
The next few issues carried the first conceptual-art covers from Robert Tinney, whose distinctive style would become closely associated with BYTE for the next 15 years. Popular computers included the Altair 8800 and the KIM-1. Zilog announced the Z80 microprocessor (which would become more popular
than the Intel 8080 with respect to CP/M enthusiasts).
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In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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