{"id":293,"date":"2011-09-05T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-09-05T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:21:40","slug":"a-little-nibble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/09\/05\/a-little-nibble\/","title":{"rendered":"A little nibble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little history for the digital natives among us.<\/p>\n<p>I heard on TWIT today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/byte\/\">Byte<\/a> was been revived. Gina Smith in describing Byte had to make sure that listeners knew the spelling.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is a little question for you. At the time that Byte was on my magazine list I also received a magazine covering the Apple computer of the day. The name of the magazine might appear related in a pun kind of way to Byte. There was a kind of tech joke attached. The competition for Apple of that day made use of a 16 bit CPU (maybe 8088). The Apple used a 8 bit CPU (6502 if I remember). The name of the Apple mag, a half a byte, was ?????<\/p>\n<p>I could not get anyone to come up with an answer on Google + . \u00a0Half a byte is a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nibblemagazine.net\/\">\u00a0Nibble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little history for the digital natives among us. I heard on TWIT today that Byte was been revived. Gina Smith in describing Byte had to make sure that listeners knew the spelling. So, here is a little question for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/09\/05\/a-little-nibble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}