Wayne Green founder of; Byte magazine; 73 magazine, Kilobyte, Kilobaud,80 Micro & more

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Wayne Green 

Wayne Green was a prolific person when it came to creating magazines, companies & 100,s of ideas for products. Wayne was also an amateur radio operator W2NSD and many of his creations were related to amateur radio as well as microcomputers.

I was well acquainted with Wayne and we had many meetings and discussions over the years.  He wanted to travel with our group going to the Soviet Union and his comment was "I can fix a lot of their problems'. This comment should give you the idea he had a very big ego and was sometimes eccentric & strange in the way he acted.   The short of this story is he did not go and cancelled at the last minute due to some business deal he was working on. I am sure his staying home was a real blessing for me as if he would have made the trip it would have been an international disaster.

Wayne did have a brilliance about him and created many successful ventures. He proclaimed to be the best in about  everything  including finance, marketing, health, food, travel, microcomputers, politics, cold fusion and the moon landing, the list does not end. He also served as a founder and first secretary of American Mensa.

73 Magazine September 2003

I liked Wayne and helped write some articles for his publications over the years. Here is an issue of his ham radio magazine "73 Amateur Radio Today" September 2002 -  I furnished the cover photo and did a story about our "Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service" (FAIRS) work in Dominica. Read the FAIRS story.

That is me at the top of the ladder putting up our ham radio antenna's in Roseau, Dominica.

As we have said Wayne was an interesting fellow and Randy Kindig published "Floppy Days 48 - Kevin Savetz Interviews Wayne Green". This interview was January 29, 2013 and Wayne died the following September. This had to be nearly the last recorded interview given by Wayne Green.

I have posted the whole blog below with permission from Randy Kindig. I think you will find this interesting history about Mr. Green. You can even check out the FBI file on Wayne.

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Welcome to a special interview-only episode of the Floppy Days Podcast.  For this show, we have an interview conducted by Kevin Savetz, interviewer-extraordinaire from the Antic Podcast.  Kevin conducted this interview 2 years ago.  Since the interviewee and topic are not Atari-related, but are very much vintage computer related, Kevin and I thought perhaps Floppy Days would be a good medium for publishing this interview.

Wayne Green, Computer Magazine Publisher

Wayne Green was founder of 73 magazine; Byte magazine; Kilobyte, which became Kilobaud, then Kilobaud Microcomputing; 80 Micro magazine for the TRS-80; Hot Coco for the TRS-80 Color Computer; Run for the Commodore 64, inCider magazine for the Apple II; and several other computer magazines.

This interview took place over Skype on January 29, 2013, when I was doing research for a book about the very first personal computer magazines — Byte, Kilobyte, and Creative Computing. Although I've decided not to write the book, I am publishing the interviews that I did for them.
Wayne Green died on September 13, 2013, eight months after we did this interview.
Teaser quotes:

"Sharing is the big deal for me. When I find something fun, interesting, I have to share it."
"Steve Jobs ... I heard about the Apple computer so my wife and I stopped by to visit him. ... He took me out to the garage and showed it to me. He says, 'What do you think?' I said 'I think you've got a winner. There's a first computer conference is going to be in Atlantic City in two weeks. Be there.' He says 'Oh, I can't afford to fly.' I said, 'Take a bus. Be there.'"

"Amelia Earhart kept her plane at my dad's airport. ... I used to play in that when I was a kid. ... I'm one of the few people who knows exactly what happened to her."


Links:
Obituary:  http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-publications-pioneer-visionary-iconoclast-wayne-green-w2nsd-sk

An article remembering Wayne: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474900/windows-pcs/goodbye-wayne-green--and-thanks-for-the-memories.html

Wayne Green FBI file:  https://archive.org/details/Wanye_Green_FBI_FOIA_Request_Response

Kilobaud Microcomputing issues: https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine 

See  Randall's original podcast here published October 24,2015.
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David Larsen

Wayne Green was an interesting person and prolific writer. I always enjoyed reading his editorial "Never Say Die" in 73 Magazine .

           .^{"by David Larsen"  KK4WW Computer Collector Historian}

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Amateur Radio Pioneer 'Wayne S. Green' 91,died 'W2NSD SK' September 13th - First Publisher of '73' & 'Byte' Magazines.

Wayne Green

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Wayne Green died September 13th 2013, he was 91 and lived a long an interesting eclectic life. Wayne  (W2NSD ) was a champion of early use of single sideband (SSB), repeater technology which he said was the idea for cell telephones and more. I remember one story about him convincing the military by flying around the world in a military plane  transmitting with SSB with high ranking officers that SSB was the wave of the future . Wayne will be remembered by Amateur Radio operator for many of his pioneer ideas in radio technology and publishing a variety of publications. His most visible work was the publication of 73 magazine for radio hams.  His editorials in 73 magazine were usually controversial creating a following that thought he was a bit crazy or others that thought he was on the money for many of his ideas and theories.

Byte Magazine

Wayne joined the microcomputer revolution very early and suggested  folks could make real money in this new field. Wayne started several businesses in the computer field and early on had some success selling software to microcomputer users. He better known for his computer magazines starting with Byte Magazine  September 1975. His wife at the time hijacked the magazine from him in the first few months and this created  dozens of intriguing stories.  He immediately started Kilobyte only to be sued by his former wife to not use the word Byte and he had to change the name to Kilobaud. He started and published many more magazines about computers and ham radio.

Wayne was always interesting to talk with and at one time he suggested he accompany my FAIRS group on a visit to the Soviet Union - He was sure he could be a help them do better at amateur radio.

Here is a post by former Wayne Green employee Robert Mitchell - it tells a lot about Wayne Green.

I liked Wayne and he was truly a pioneer and deserves a lot of credit for his computer and amateur radio contributions.  Many folks would do well to use some of the many useful ideas he presented in his magazines and lately his blog postings.

David Larsen

Good by Wayne you made us all think more about the life we live and how we could do better.

   ^{"By David Larsen" KK4WW Computer Collector Historian}