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When I was twelve years old, I read these magazines cover to cover at my local library (even the really old ones), and ESPECIALLY loved Jerry Pournelle's "Chaos Manor" columns in the back. To see its name being mentioned again warms my heart, even if Pournelle isn't involved.

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When I was 12, I was a regular reader of bit magazine.

No, not a joke. It was a Japanese magazine similar to BYTE in spirit, but more of CS taste. I remember articles about concurrent Prolog, machine translation using pivot representations, distributed systems etc.

I stopped reading it when I got to the university, where I was able to be up-to-date with such kind of information without it.

And then, its publishing ceased in 2001.

I too was around 12 when I would carefully try to type in basic and assembly language programs from Byte magazine into our Apple IIe. What a lot of work! No downloading the code from the internet. No gem install, etc. And if you made a mistake somewhere, good like trying to find and fix it.

I loved every second of it though. Long live Byte!

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