BYTE Magazine

[Platypus]

Oh don't you start! I got it in the neck yesterday when I confessed that I read books with equations in them

No, no, I'm intrigued !

[RichardCranium]

what about vsj? although it no longer drops through the letterbox [sniff].

I thought I was the only subscriber to the Visual Systems Journal.



RC in still-mourning-for-Freelance-Informer mode.

[NickFitz]

Ahh, Jerry Pournelle and Chaos Manor. Didn't he give his computers names? Can't remember what called them...

I remember that his original IBM PC was called "Lucy van Pelt"

I've tried to forget, but any mention of him brings it back

[Zippy]

No, no, I'm intrigued !

I used to work for the technology division of an engineering company and it was considered part of the job to read these (and other) mags.
I used to enjoy Jerry Pournelle's column but the general opinion among the lads was that he was a bit of a jessy.

[NickFitz]

Parody of Pournelle's BYTE column from rec.humor.funny

[bogeyman]

I remember that his original IBM PC was called "Lucy van Pelt"

I've tried to forget, but any mention of him brings it back

Alex named it Lucy Van Pelt because it was such a fussbudget.

Yup! There you go.

A 'fussbudget'

As for 'Big Cheetah' ... apparently an i286 with 2Mb ... the mind boggles.

[bogeyman]

Parody of Pournelle's BYTE column from rec.humor.funny

Ha! Excellent.

[threaded]

Yes, I have piles of Byte, Dr. Dobbs, Elektor, Wireless World, RadCom, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics & loads of others I can't remember the names of, going mouldy in a cellar in one house. Dumped several pallet loads a while back, but still have more to go.

I can't for the life of me think why I thought it important back then to keep them now.

Get several periodicals delivered now, free, that I normally take along to a client and leave in their coffee room, rather than fill up my paper bin at home.

[EternalOptimist]

It's amazing how the articles move from being high brow & difficult to understand to merely tedious & uninteresting as the years went on.

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Is that because the quality went down, or because your knowledge went up

[lilelvis2000]

Parody of Pournelle's BYTE column from rec.humor.funny

Not as funny as the real thing. http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/