Vintage Computer Magazines

Users share links to Archive.org scans of classic computer magazines like Byte from the 1970s-1980s and express nostalgia for their in-depth technical articles on hardware, assembly code, and computing history.

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Pamar Jun 26, 2016 View on HN

Oh Wow!They have Byte, too... https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-rescans

tombaugh Aug 5, 2022 View on HN

Eighties computer magazines were amazing. Is there anything that comes close?

fsloth Aug 20, 2018 View on HN

Is this the issue you are referring (?):https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09

ykonstant Feb 11, 2024 View on HN

Is there something like this for general computer magazines? I want to remember the old days of copying assembly listings and reading nice technical articles on computer internals.

Keyframe Feb 11, 2024 View on HN

Archive.org is full of them https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

ptek Dec 26, 2023 View on HN

I remember in New Zealand there was a internet magazine from Australia which used to list a bunch of sites and a small description in different sections of the magazines (1997?)It started off clean, then a couple of months later it had a small 'adult' section, and then each month after that the 'adult' section got bigger and bigger that the magazine got reclassified as a adult mag. (I never brought this mag)I've never read byte in dead tree format but read it onlin

lisper May 3, 2022 View on HN

There's this:https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08

reaperducer Mar 9, 2019 View on HN

Reading old computer magazines from the library.

rwmj Jul 4, 2022 View on HN

Byte magazine covered it: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1991-01/page/n398/...

ErroneousBosh Dec 2, 2025 View on HN

Computer magazines in the 80s would have blown your mind.https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08