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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is Steve Ciarcia gone from BYTE?
Keywords: BYTE IBM PC STEVE CIARCIA
Message-ID: <7968@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 14:09:43 GMT
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Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
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In article <5170@bnrmtv.UUCP> miket@bnrmtv.UUCP (Michael Thompson) writes:
>I noticed that Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column is now gone
>from BYTE magazine.  Does anyone know why he is no longer with
>BYTE as of 1989?  I hope he is off on a long vacation or 
>something.  This is only my opinion, but I thought that his
>series of hardware (some software projects) for computers really
>help distinguish BYTE from other IBM magazines such as PC WORLD.

Yes, he's gone.  He has his own magazine now, Circuit Cellar Ink,
which carries his projects, I suppose in conjunction with MicroMint,
which used to be his chief supplier of kits to the hobbyist market.

You're right, the general-interest features that used to distinguish
BYTE from the competition are drying up fast.  I don't know whether
this is due to the fact that the large majority of micro users are
only interested in how to get their off-the-shelf applications to work 
faster and have no real interest in 'what's under the hood' these days,
or that McGraw Hill figures it's not worth the space anymore.  These
days, by and large, you don't really HAVE to homebrew something to get 
a good graphics unit, etc., as long as you want it for a PC :-(.

Time for someone to post the address to Micro Cornucopia again.  This
magazine seems to be one of the last refuges of the hardware tinkerer.

						Bob Halloran
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