Letters to BYTE.com

By BYTE.com Readers

September 1, 2003

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Hola, Amiga

Dear BYTE.com,

I was wondering if it were possible to obtain permission to make a copy of the August 1985 BYTE cover story about the Amiga system, with due credits and copyright notices, for distribution as part of future versions of Amiga Forever (www.amigaforever.com). I was a BYTE subscriber at the time, and that one story not only got me into the Amiga, shaping more than 15 years after that, but I also believe it would be an important contribution to our Amiga Forever project, which is increasingly extending into digital archiving of Amiga videos and print items.

Michael C. Battilana
mcb@cloanto.com

Permission granted! We're proud of our role in computer history. –Ed.

Back to the Good Old Days

I was a subscriber to the printed BYTE for almost 10 years, and it is now the only Web magazine that I turn to every week without fail…however, I often feel that I'm returning solely for the memory of the old BYTE, rather than the content.

Just as in the past, I always go to Jerry's column first, though I don't remember there being quite so much PC building content. Maybe there just isn't that much emerging technology at the moment.

I miss the adverts (!) which at least kept me aware of new products, both hardware and software.

I've said this all before, but what persuaded me to write today was the current article on Digital AM radio ["Building a PC-Based Receiver for Digital AM Radio" by D. Prabakaran, BYTE.com, August 11, 2003]. This is exactly the sort of article that we used to get in the paper BYTE. Highly technical, of no real use to me at this current moment, but I'll put money on me being able to use the information a few months down the line. This is very much like the content of many of the Linux magazines at the moment. Explaining new (and often obscure) projects that stimulate my interest in the current flow of IT.

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