[siffland]

From the beginning of Byte magazine until about 1984 are really fun to read. The ads were probably annoying at the time of release, but not they are fun and interesting to read. I like the 1983 issue with imaging where they are talking about movie effects for "Tron" and "Revenge of the Jedi".

I wished they would of had more UNIX in the issues, however it was usually unaffordable. But a fun look, at least for me, to the history of computing. And who does not like an ad for a 8MB, $3999 disk drive subsystem.

[magoghm]

The ads were not annoying at the time of release. I really enjoyed reading those ads and finding out about products specs and prices, remember that we didn’t have the Web back then and Byte magazine was my main source of information about what was available.

[Someone]

Indeed. Complaining about the ads in Byte would have been like complaining about the ads in the yellow pages.

Byte almost was reverse Playboy: you almost didn’t read it for the articles.

[acomjean]

I think it “creative computing” or nibble magazine that had a postcard where you could check off interests and send it back. I did this in middle school and would occasionally get mailings about products (and credit card offers).

Magazine ads where the way to get targeted views.

[dan_hawkins]

"Revenge of the Jedi" - you mean "Return of the Jedi" right? :D Although "Revenge of the Jedi" would be awesome!

[cgh]

The original title was actually Revenge of the Jedi and there are still old posters and ads around for it, eg https://entertainment.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/20...