[ghaff]

Computing sort of got too big. Early on, Byte could be eclectic with lots of different architectural discussions and hardware like circuit cellar. But from my perspective they got to a point where they were, for lack of a better word, pretty random. I was at an event where they were trying to reboot sometime in the 2000s but not sure what the market was for a popular computing magazine trying to cover all the bases at that point.

[pklausler]

BYTE was best before Jerry Pournelle showed up.

[ghaff]

Chaos manor was sort of a proto-blog. I enjoyed it well enough. As I say, Byte worked well enough as sort of extended hobbyist/nerd zine until that didn't really work as well any longer.

[sitkack]

Chaos manor was <uncharitable>. Readers were being both talked at and down to. BYTE would have been better without it.