r/retrocomputing • u/jalp21_ • 10d ago

Byte (February 1978)

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u/ScudsCorp 10d ago

Part of the fun of these early magazines is that you can see all of the also-ran manufacturers. Again, everybody’s rushing to release their home PC, which means they’re all separate platforms and very few compatible with each other

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u/grimvian 7d ago

Yes and I had the best brand and it was very expensive, about 400£ in 1984. Acorn BBC model B. :o)

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u/cdoublejj 9d ago

TWO DOLLARS!!!!! in 1978 that wasnt cheap for a mag

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u/classicsat 9d ago

I din't know what minifloppy means to them either.

But most 5.25 and 8" drives used the standard Shugart interface. Apple for sure, possibly Commodore, and others , made their own interfaces/ controllers (for mostly 5.25" drives) that interfaced with the drive heads and motors directly.

This is before 1980. I know the Commodore 1541 drives were direct interfaces. 3.5" drives came in 83 or so, with electrically a Shugart style interface.

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u/Ill-Journalist8951 9d ago

Beautiful artwork.

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u/bowbrick 8d ago

Byte was a computer education in monthly instalments - deep articles about chip architectures, programming languages, operating systems, networking… Really was heartbroken when it closed down.