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Gormo
Archive.org has a lot of collections of periodicals, and there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, especially stuff relating to computer history. They've got the full archives of the old Computer Chronicles TV show on there as well.

But their UI for browsing these collections is unusable. I haven't been able to find any way of exploring these collections chronologically, or searching within the content ofa specific collection or issue and sorting/filtering the results to identify what I'm looking for.

Compare this to the way Google organizes similar collections: here's their archive of InfoWorld, going back to 1975: http://books.google.com/books?id=tDcEAAAAMBAJ

jim02672
There is also a torrent ( http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7978965/ ) which has the ones at archive.org and more, with some replaced with higher quality scans. And ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ has some that aren't in either the torrent or archive.org yet.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ is where people doing the scanning are/were hanging out. Scanning seems to have kinda stalled recently. :(

analog31
In the early 80's, my mom got a subscription to Byte, and I eagerly awaited every issue. My drug of choice was "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar," which forged a connection for me, between my nascent interests in electronics and programming.
marshray
Hooray!

But this isn't going to stop me from taking 200 pounds of physical Byte with me to every new home I move.

jim02672
Good! How about scanning in some of the still missing issues? ;)
marshray
I'd be happy to, if someone can hook me up with a scanner that can do the job at a reasonable speed. I'm in the Seattle area and can bring them where ever.

My set is far from complete but we can all put our sets together.