Byte
Series
Identifier: MAG-BYTE
Scope and Contents
This is a limited collection of select issues of Byte magazine with cover stories relevant to gaming history.
Dates
- Publication: September 1975 – July 1998
Creator
- Green Publishing (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
5 Magazines
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Byte was a long-running computing magazine published between 1975 and 1998. Byte was one of the major American computing publications and, among other topics, covered computer games.
Byte was originally published by Green Publishing before moving to its own company, Byte Publications, in early 1976. The magazine was purchased and published by McGraw-Hill in July 1979 and would be published by them until the final issue on July 1998, when it was shut down by new owners CMP Media.
Holdings
Held:
- Volume 4, Number 11
- Volume 6, Numbers 5, 12
- Volume 7, Numbers 5, 12
Known Missing:
- Volumes 1–3 (1975–1978)
- Volume 4, Numbers 1–10, 12 (January–October 1989, December 1979)
- Volume 5 (1980)
- Volume 6, Numbers 1–4, 6–11 (January–April 1981, June–November 1981)
- Volume 7, Numbers 1–4, 6–11 (January–April 1982, June–November 1982)
- Volumes 8–23 (1983–1989)
Creator
- Green Publishing (Publisher, Organization)
- Byte Publications, Inc (Publisher, Organization)
- McGraw Hill (Publisher, Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository