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Bajtek was one of most popular Polish computer magazines at it its times.

Bajtek was started in 1985 by Władysław Majewski, an editor of "Przegląd - Komputer" - , which was an insertion added to "Przegląd Techniczny". First The first issue would be published by "Krajowe Wydawnictwo Czasopism", but because it was started 'ad hoc', it didn't have paper allowance (dear reader - Dear Reader, please remember, that at this time Poland was a communist country), so it had to borrow paper. The "Sztandar Młodych" (Youth Banner), the newspaper of ZMP (Polish Youth Association - an organ of the communist party for the young communists) decided to lend paper for the Bajtek, and the first issue could be printed. It was continued followed by three other issues during the year 1985 and all 200,000 copies were sold on the spot.

The "Sztandar Młodych" editor liked the idea of a computer magazine adresed addressed at the young computer entusiasts enthusiasts (rather than at computer scientists - as all other polish Polish computer magazines, at that time did), so much, that he decided to take it over.

In the Fall fall of 1985, the editor of "Sztandar Młodych" Aleksander Kwaśniewski (who will later became President of Poland) become became "minister do spraw młodzieży" (Youth minister? minister in matter of youth? Blah, communistic 'nomenclature' is really hard to translate and my english English ain't good too), and his first decision, was to make Bajtek, a part of the "Sztandar Młodych" publishing house. Since From 1986, until to 1989 Bajtek was published by "Sztandar Młodych".

In the year 1989, thanks to the 'Round Table', there were many changes in Poland. One of the most important, was the closing of the Office of Censorship and stoping stopping of the press regulation. With that (and many other changes), Bajtek was divided separated from the "Sztandar Młodych" and continued on it its own, published by Bajtek Publishing House, an a co-operative stared started by Bajtek 's redactors. It ran down until 1996, when bancrupcy bankruptcy of Agrobank had bringed brought Bajtek Publishing House to its knees, eventualy bancrupting eventually bankrupting it too.

On At the beginning, Bajtek had mainly articles about computers from "private import" (more communistic 'nomenclature'), particulary particularly about ZX Spectrum, which became quite popular in Poland in the first half of the 80'iess, mainly because of it's its price. In the 1986, there was an advent of 'clans' - subparts sections of Bajtek, each dedicated to only one machine/producer (All all Ataris, All all Commodores and so on).

By that time, the popularity of the CPC in Poland was rising. That was, to the simple fact, that CPC CPCs were (thanks to CP/M+ and 80 column mode) considered as a cheap alternative to IBM PC and other 'professional machines'. Personally, I've heard about CPC applications in scientific calculations, witch which on it its own shows how this trend was strong. That was because even institutions (like universities) couldn't allow themselfs for themselves buying substantial amounts of PCs. Poland was (at that time) very poor country and high currency exchange rates added to the problem. Also, there was COCOM, which meant that really big machines were out-of-reach.

AlsoMoreover, the bulitbuilt-in Cetronics Centronics port of the Schneiders allowed very easy producing of so called "Publikacje publikacje bezdebitowe" ('"debitless' " publications). "Debit " is a word from french, French meaning '"to sell'", '"place of selling' " and '"bez-' " is a polish word Polish prefix for "without". At that time, if you wanted to distribute your publication, you had to have 'a "debit'", an allowance from the Office of Censorship. So, in short, "bezdebitowe" or '"debitless' " publications were illegal 'papers' distributed by the undergroundpolitical organizations. As they usally been usually were produced in quantities of around 200 copies, The a CPC with a good NLQ printer and possibly a copier was all you need needed to fight with communism. Needless to say, CPC became quite popular in the underground.

Thanks to that, CPC was noticed by Bajtek and The the "Klan Amstrada/Schneidera", a clan for the CPC and PCW computers was also formed. UnfortunatlyUnfortunately, because of the typical profile of polish Polish CPC users, polish 'a Polish "scene' " never formed, so there weren't autors were no authors in "the CPC clan" who could portrey portray the "Colour in CPC". Most articles was were about practical applications of CPC and PCW.

|Pisać zamiast pisac||Imposible Impossible to translate - this was article was about polish Polish diacritical signs||5-6/1986||13

|Lista zmiennych||variables Variables list||8/1986||11

|Jednoręki bandyta||Blackjack One-armed bandit (?slot machine)||9/1986||12

|Jak odbezpieczyc odbezpieczyć program w BASIC-u||How to unprotect a BASIC program||9/1986||14

|Transmat||???Transmat||10/1986||15

|Polskie litery||Polish letter letters (again about polish Polish diacritical signs)||11/1986||8

|Pamięć pod lupą||Memory under magnifing magnifying glass||11/1986||9

|Amstrad PC 1512||n/aAmstrad PC 1512||12/1986||11

|Circle||n/aCircle||12/1986||11

[''1''] - Troughout the 1986, there were some problems with continous continuous publishing, so there were a couple of bi-monthly issues

|Jezyki Języki programowania||Programming languages||6/1987||13

|Instalacja polskich liter w CP/M PLUS dla CPC6128||Installation of polish Polish letters under CP/M PLUS for CPC 6128||8/1987||13

[''1''] - This article was in 12 partparts, each one had been on diffrent a different page. I could list all 12 entries, each one stating the correct page number, but, as I don't think, any of You collect Bajtek(now or will in the future), I don't see the point.

1. ZbyniuR at [http://www.speccy.pl Speccy.pl] (polish Polish forum of spectrum Spectrum & amstrad Amstrad users) share a .dsk images of Bajtek's listing in [http://speccy.pl/forum/index.php/topic,1319.0.html this topic]. Some of this these programs was were rewritten with bug's fix fixes and/or/and enriched additions compared to the original source.2. Scan's Scans of the Bajtek magazine is are available on at [http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1234027498&archive=&start_from=0&ucat=8&amp%3Bsubaction=showfull&amp%3Bucat=8&ct=biblioteka#zin=Bajtek__rok=Wszystkie AtariOnLine] (Atari's user page) in djvu format.3. There is also a project [http://www.t2e.pl/pl/434/0/434/Projekty/ "Bajtek Reduks"], involving the transfer of the electronic document (PDF) the full content of the paper issue issues of Bajtekinto the electronic form (PDF).