Fun bit of trivia: Byte was edited and published in Peterborough, New Hampshire. If you've ever been to that area of the world, you'd know how totally absurd it is that such an influential, world-renowned tech magazine was based there.
Nominally, the offices were located sorta near Boston, which at the time had some important tech companies like Digital and Lotus, amongst others. But Peterborough was a small, rural, old-fashioned New England town about as far away from Silicon Valley as you could get. How a publication from that area was able to be so relevant to the tech industry is almost a mystery!
Wayne Green [0] is responsible for that. Responsible for some publishing innovation in the electronics world, he started with writing about radioteletypes for hams in the 50s, and moved up to Peterborough after starting 73 magazine
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Green
Less than an hour away from Marlow, NH, original home of PC Connection. Must be something in the water.
Not really that odd. Yes, Lotus was in Boston (Cambridge actually). But the computer industry was mostly west and northwest of the city. Digital had a big campus in Nashua over the border from MA in NH. (I think Oracle is there now.) Lots of people at many of the computer companies actually lived in NH.