Ars Technica

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died at age 78 in Baker, Louisiana, ...

In 1975, a simple magazine cover caught Bill Gates’s attention, and this helped launch what became Microsoft

A 1975 magazine cover sparked a revolution in personal computing. Bill Gates and Paul Allen saw the Altair 8800 and ...