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BYTE, December 1975, Volume 1, Number 4.

Green Publishing, Publisher: Wayne Green, Editor: Carl Helmers, Cover illustration by Robert Tinney.

This was the last issue that listed Wayne Green as publisher.

There are reviews of the Altair 8800 and SWTPC 6800 computers. Don Lancaster explains how ROMs work.

The 8.25 by 11 inch (21 by 28 cm) magazine has 112 pages.

The cover artist, Robert Tinney, has sold prints of his Byte Magazine covers beginning with the July 1976 bicentennial issue. It shows Thomas Jefferson (or possibly Tom Paine) reviewing the Declaration of Independence on a printing terminal. [1] Byte magazine printed 2000 copies that were offered for $2.95 each.

Robert Tinney still sells copies of selected Byte magazine cover art. Robert Tinney Graphics He stated in an email correspondence (March 2005) that he did not have the original artwork for his earliest Byte magazine covers, including the December 1975 issue. He does not offer reprints of these early illustrations.

Source: This cover was scanned by User:Swtpc6800 on an Epson Perfection 1240U at 300 dpi with half-tone de-screening enabled and stored as TIFF. The image was touched up in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 and this copy saved as a 48 dpi JPEG. Magazine purchased at Zack Electronics, 1444 Market Street, San Francisco, CA in December 1975.

[edit] Fair Use in Byte (magazine)

• Byte was the leading magazine of the home computer revolution.
• This was the first issue where Robert Tinney drew the cover illustration. Tinney would create over 100 paintings for Byte magazine.
• The artist resells some of his Byte magazine artwork but does not sell any pre July 1976 covers.
• The resolution is minimum necessary to read the significant text on the cover.

The copyrights for BYTE are held by CMP Technology.

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