[net.micro] MPX-16 and Stever Ciarcia

mem (12/02/82)

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Speaking of the MPX-16: somebody was ranting at me the other day about
Steve Ciarcia and Byte.  The claim was that Steve used to be paid by
Byte magazine to write these sort of simple hardware project articles,
and at some point he started selling his projects.  Now, apparently, he
uses Byte as an advertising and marketing service to his kits.  If this
is actually true, it seems extremely unethical on the part of Byte
magazine, and rather fortunate for Steve.  If it isn't (true), I'm sure
I'll hear about it.

Mark Mallett

mem (12/02/82)

c
Change "Stever" to "Steve", as I'm sure you already have.

ss (12/03/82)

Steve sells kits or not!!  I have found his articles to be one of the 
highlights of BYTE, and would be most upset if they were stopped. I think
that most readers of BYTE agree with me, as shown by the BOMB results
over the last few years.
Sharad Singhal

clark.wbst@Parc-Maxc@sri-unix (12/03/82)

I would not mind hearing the real story too... he seems to win their $100
bomb box quite often too... seems to me that should be for the one time
contributor/hacker, not someone on the payroll.

--Ray

ss (12/06/82)

The first line on the last article by me should read..
I don't care whether Steve sells kits or not....
Sorry for the goof-up.
Sharad Singhal