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Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

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401 points chromy | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.324s | source

A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer.

I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras.

This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place.

[1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184

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don_searchcraft ◴[26 Aug 25 17:34 UTC] No.45029730[source]▶
Its certainly beautiful to look at but the search capability itself is not very good.
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1. kmoser ◴[27 Aug 25 06:41 UTC] No.45036159[source]▶
I was unable to find information mentioned in some ads, and couldn't figure out why. The scanned text was reasonably legible that I would assume it would have OCRed correctly.