[sdiy] New to list - and DSP development

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] New to list - and DSP development
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:28:08 -0500
Message-ID: <16e501c4e0aa$9f36fe20$6500a8c0 at BABYUTEST>

John,

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at bredband.net>
> >
> > I recall all the lovely stuff you could see in the adds of BYTE at the
> time.
> > Oh golly!
> 
> I still miss Byte! It was the best microcomputer magazine: Platform
> agnostic, technically authoritative, and with excellent writers like Steve
> Ciarcia, Jon Udell, and Dr. Jerry "Real Soon Now" Pournelle. :-(

BYTE back in the good old days was good. It didn't dig very deep under the hood
but they had Circuit Cellar for that, so it compensated. I still have all the
BYTE magazines that I bought in a bookshelf.

In later years it became more and more "washed out", less and less hard content
and I got less and less interested.

Circuit Cellar has been a real inspiration to me and I still finds that I need
to fiddle with a 8052AH BASIC as they described in Circuit Cellar. It is
totally meaningless by todays standards, but anyway. I was *given* a board with
all the hardware on it. Just apply power and it can even burn EPROMs using the
builtin program. Amazing stuff. The manual for the 8052 BASIC is online and it
even tells you how to add your own BASIC commands etc. Actually, sometimes I
really wish I had all the power of the 8052AH BASIC in a transformed system of
today. It doesn't have to be BASIC, it doesn't have to be 8052 but rather
neither of them. Toss in FLASH programmer, FPGA download code and maybe even
modern stuff like USB, now that would be neat.

So, fiddeling around in 15-20 year old BYTE can still give inspiration for
today, now that is good going!

Cheers,
Magnus