Since byte.com is being revived soon, and in spite of the fact that the new incarnation sounds lame, I’ve had a good time going back and revisiting some of the publications of the day. You can find archives of Creative Computing here and here, as well as Compute! located here.
But the initial review of the Macintosh in Byte is great, partially because I didn’t see it at the time, and partially because it reminds me of how new the concepts that the Mac made popular were at the time. The author describes WYSIWYG, menus, the mouse, and the entire desktop metaphor. Finally, there are the quaint touches of a bygone era — using Sieve of Eratosthenes as a Benchmark, defining RAM and ROM, noting the high-resolution (512×342) display. The article gave me a chance to at once look back at the Mac as it was born, and Byte at it’s best.