Author: Editor
Article: “The Genesis of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A Historical Overview”
Tinney’s “Smalltalk” illustration featured on the Aug. 1981 cover of BYTE Magazine became the defacto signboard for object-oriented programming.
Article: “This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We’re So Bad at Tech Predictions”
“Tinney’s work was imaginative, technically superb (he is a master of the airbrush) and, sometimes, very funny. Byte lost a little bit of its soul when the publication started phasing out his work in favor of standard-issue photos of standard-issue computers.” – Time Magazine, April 2014
Article: “The truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney”
“During the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Tinney illustrated some of the most amazing computer artwork for BYTE magazine.” – The Lunduke Journal of Technology, Dec. 2021
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
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
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
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