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Bajtek

Bajtek is one of the first popular magazines devoted to computer science in Poland. Its title was a reference to the computer term byte and to the American magazine Byte. The founder was Waldemar Siwiński. The magazine was very well known in the late 1980s in the country. It was published between 1985 and 1996. The magazine was inspired by the British magazine Your Computer and the American magazine Compute!. The sponsor of Bajtek was Polish Socialist Youth Union which is also known as ZSMP.

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Article summary

Bajtek is one of the first popular magazines devoted to computer science in Poland. Its title was a reference to the computer term byte and to the American magazine Byte. The founder was Waldemar Siwiński. The magazine was very well known in the late 1980s in the country. It was published between 1985 and 1996. The magazine was inspired by the British magazine Your Computer and the American magazine Compute!. The sponsor of Bajtek was Polish Socialist Youth Union which is also known as ZSMP.

Key claims

  1. publication date: 1985 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1985". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347751909

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