Tinney

It happens:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/

I didn't know Robert Tinney had a site with posters:

https://tinney.net/product/1776

I *think* this is the cover of the first issue of Byte that I ever bought:

I probably got it at Amateur Electronic Supply ?  Not sure on that.

Unfortunately this is what the BYTE covers turned into after a while:

I guess you can't blame them, editors are wordsmiths not artists.  They see a blank space and want to fill it with words (in sans serif type yet).  QST covers aren't quite the same since full color and large format, my own corny sunset cover:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/09/go-back-50-years.html

Byte kinda degenerated from a hobby magazine into yet another corporate rag - I suppose that's where the money was, at least for a while.  

I used to enjoy fooling with computers - now they are just another appliance.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm