{"id":186497,"date":"2026-02-11T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:05:10","slug":"byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/02\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/\">Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/02\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/02\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 16:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Tinney, renowned for his iconic airbrushed cover paintings for the computer magazine Byte, passed away on February 1 at age 78.<\/li>\n<li>As the primary cover artist for Byte from 1975 to the late 1980s, Tinney played a pivotal role in giving personal computing a distinctive visual language.<\/li>\n<li>Tinney produced over 80 covers for Byte, primarily using Designers Gouache for its vibrant colors, and took about a week to complete each design.<\/li>\n<li>His art prominently featured influences from surrealist artists Ren\u00e9 Magritte and M.C. Escher.<\/li>\n<li>Tinney&#8217;s association with Byte began when a phone call from Carl Helmers led to his first cover painting for the magazine\u2019s December 1975 issue.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout his career, Tinney&#8217;s works gained significant popularity, leading him to sell limited-edition signed prints and, eventually, T-shirts featuring his designs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/02\/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tinney_byte_hearder_2-1152x648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186499,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186497\/revisions\/186499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}