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Limited Edition BYTE Magazine Cover Illustration prints
Limited Edition 16″x20″ and 11″x14″ prints of BYTE Magazine cover illustrations by Robert Tinney are still available.
Media iMPRESSIONS
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In Memoriam
Robert Frank Tinney, of Washington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78.
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Article: “When you think Byte, you think Robert Tinney” & Interview: “World famous artist lives quietly in Baton Rouge”
“A member of the PC Users Group had called Tinney once to invite him to speak to the members, but Tinney modestly declined…” – Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, Aug. 1987
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Article: “Vintage Technology Daydreams: Byte Magazine’s Extraordinary Cover Illustrations”
“Byte Magazine was the top computing magazine in the 1980’s, thanks in part to these imaginative retro-futurist covers by Robert Tinney.” Futurism Blog, 2015
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Post: “Art by Robert Tinney (born in 1947)”
“Genuinely love all of these, touches my soul in the right spot” – retroscifiart on Instagram, July 2023
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Interview: “Robert Tinney, BYTE Cover Artist and Microcomputer Illustration Pioneer”
“If someone wrote a book on the history of personal computer art, chapter one could only bear the name of one man: Robert Tinney.” – Vintage Computing & Gaming, Sept. 2006






