Re: Need Book Title, Author

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Charlie Springer wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:21:14 -0800, Roger Johnstone wrote
> (in article <20061224202109905+1300@News.Individual.NET>):
>
> > My high school's library had a collection of Byte magazines going back
> > to the late '70s. The older issues were full of interesting articles,
> > including some cool hardware and software hacks for the Apple II and
> > other 8-bit computers. This lasted until the early 1980s, but by about
> > 1985 Byte had become a boring PC-business-clone monoculture.
>
> I auctioned off Byte 1 vol 1 a couple years ago and sold the rest. I recall
> the rare Apple related article, but I looked through them before I sold and
> most of the stuff was S100, Klugeharp, 8008, 8080, 6800 (Mitts, the first MS
> BASIC interpreter). All the early heavy lifting was by Carl Helmers and he
> just wasn't a single address guy (people call it load/store these days for
> some reason). The two address folks could not seem to grasp the simplicity of
> the single address architectures. They needed a MOV instruction or they were
> stuck. They also seemed a bit perplexed by memory mapped I/O and felt better
> with separate I/O instructions.
>
> They were very excited by the truly goofy Z80 when it came out.
>
> 6502 programmers migrated to RISC much easier than Intel users.
>
> -- Charlie Springer

I was by then (late '70s) happily paying (in Spain) several times it's
US price just to have it sent by airmail, but I remember sadly Byte's
scarcity of Apple II material... :-(
Lots of North Star's Horizon, Dynabyte, etc users should have been
quite happy with it, though.
S-100 users in general, and later on even TRS80 and PET users.
Steve Ciarcia drove the best columns, "Circuit cellar" was it ?
As time went by, Byte become, at least for me, everytime worse. Boring
at the end.

Regards,
Jorge Chamorro.