and some sent by vendors for review, at his home office. Because Pournelle was then, according to the magazine, "virtually Byte's only writer who was a mere user—he didn't create compilers and computers, he merely used them,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

For me, the best magazines : Byte & Dr Dobbs Journal. (And for electronics, Elektor). Its a shame no more paper magazines now available like those.

DDJ was more software- and programming-oriented than BYTE, and some of the articles in it were very interesting too. It remained alive for longer than BYTE, IIRC.

A must read book to understand AIDS in '80s -> Beyond Love (Plus grands que l'amour) (1990), ISBN 0-446-51438-1

Talks about the discovery of AIDS from Luc Montanier and Robert Gallo

RIP Luc Montanier

From your link:

>Researchers at Fukushima Medical University, which has been taking the leading role in the study, have so far said they do not believe that the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis.