Thanks for this! What a blast from the past! Look at the ADS! Nice little diversion here.
Sure do miss BYTE. Would be excellent to have a similar publication today. The scope is larger, perhaps too large, but maybe not. One got such great perspective from the pages of BYTE.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-01/page/n15/m...
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-02/page/n33/m...
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-03/page/n47/m...