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''Byte'' magazine was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.〔 "''Byte'' magazine, the leading publication serving the homebrew market ..."〕 Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user's perspective, ''Byte'' covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing. Coverage was in-depth with much technical detail, rather than user-oriented. Print publication ceased in 1998 and online publication in 2013. ''Byte'' started in 1975, shortly after the first personal computers appeared as kits advertised in the back of electronics magazines. ''Byte'' was published monthly, with an initial yearly subscription price of $10. ==Foundation== In 1975 Wayne Green was the editor and publisher of ''73'' (an amateur radio magazine) and his ex-wife, Virginia Londner Green was the Business Manager of 73 Inc.〔 Virginia Londner Green was listed as Business Manager.〕 In the August 1975 issue of ''73'' magazine Wayne's editorial column started with this item: The response to computer-type articles in ''73'' has been so enthusiastic that we here in Peterborough got carried away. On May 25th we made a deal with the publisher of a small (400 circulation) computer hobby magazine to take over as editor of a new publication which would start in August ... ''Byte''. Carl Helmers published a series of six articles in 1974 that detailed the design and construction of his "Experimenter's Computer System", a personal computer based on the Intel 8008 microprocessor. In January 1975 this became the monthly ''ECS'' magazine with 400 subscribers. The last issue was published on May 12, 1975 and in June the subscribers were mailed a notice announcing ''Byte'' magazine. Carl wrote to another hobbyist newsletter, ''Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter'', and described his new job as editor of ''Byte'' magazine. I got a note in the mail about two weeks ago from Wayne Green, publisher of '73 Magazine' essentially saying hello and why don't you come up and talk a bit. The net result of a follow up is the decision to create BYTE magazine using the facilities of Green Publishing Inc. I will end up with the editorial focus for the magazine; with the business end being managed by Green Publishing.〔 :File:Micro-8 June 27 1975.png〕 Virginia Londner Green had returned to ''73'' in the December 1974 issue and incorporated Green Publishing in March 1975.〔 Green Publishing, Inc. was incorporated on March 7, 1975.〕 The first five issues of ''Byte'' were published by Green Publishing and the name was changed to Byte Publications starting with the February 1976 issue.〔Copyright catalogs at the Library of Congress for Byte magazine.〕 Carl Helmers was a co-owner of Byte Publications.〔 Virginia Peschke and Carl Helmers are the owners of Byte Publications.〕 The first four issues were produced in the offices of ''73'' and Wayne Green was listed as the publisher. One day in November 1975 Wayne came to work and found that the ''Byte'' magazine staff had moved out and taken the January issue with them. The February 1976 issue of ''Byte'' has a short story about the move. "After a start which reads like a romantic light opera with an episode or two reminiscent of the Keystone Cops, ''Byte'' magazine finally has moved into separate offices of its own." Wayne Green was not happy about losing ''Byte'' magazine so he was going to start a new one called ''Kilobyte''.〔 Two page ad describing the new KILOBYTE magazine.〕 ''Byte'' quickly trademarked KILOBYTE as a cartoon series in ''Byte'' magazine. The new magazine was called ''Kilobaud''. There was competition and animosity between Byte Publications and 73 Inc. but both remained in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Byte (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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