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BYTE Cover Artist Gets Quizzed

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/rtinney.jpg Those VintageComputing.com chaps are at it again, and have posted an excellent interview with BYTE Magazine cover artists Robert Tinney, which OK, isn't _completely_ game-related, but is absolutely awesome anyhow.

As is noted: "As cover artist for over eighty issues of BYTE magazine — microcomputing’s first and finest major publication — and as one of the first men to illustrate topics related to the fledgling field of personal computers, he near single-handedly shaped the popular visual idiom of what computers were, could be, and would be for the for a whole generation of microcomputer enthusiasts."

As Tinney himself comments: "Magritte and Escher are two of my favorite artists, and fans have noticed their influence in many of the BYTE designs." I'd certainly love to own some originals of these.

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Does anyone collect old BYTE signed covers?

I have the complete set of 42 signed and numbered 100 of the total printing. I believe that ther are only 3 comlete collections with all numbered the same

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