11 Facts About Byte Magazine

Byte Magazine was published monthly, with an initial yearly subscription price of $10.

Whereas many magazines were dedicated to specific systems or the home or business users' 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.

Byte Magazine then sent letters out to these people telling them about the new magazine.

Just prior to planning Byte Magazine, Green had a run-in with the Internal Revenue Service.

Byte Magazine had recently gotten back together with his ex-wife, Virginia Londner Green, who had been listed as the business manager of 73 Inc since December 1974.

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Byte Magazine's incorporated Green Publishing in March 1975 to take over publication.

Green was not happy about losing Byte and decided to start a new magazine called Kilobyte.

Byte Magazine announced these intentions early, and advertised the upcoming magazine in 73, with the goal of shipping the first issue in December 1976 .

Byte Magazine's remained publisher until 1983 and became a vice president of McGraw-Hill Publications Company.

Around 1985, Byte Magazine started an online service called BIX which was a text-only BBS-style site running on the CoSy conferencing software, used by McGraw-Hill internally.

One such site was science fiction author Jerry Pournelle's weblog The View From Chaos Manor derived from a long-standing column in Byte Magazine, describing computers from a power user's point of view.