LIT On 28 October 2026 the Internet Archive search for identifier:byte-magazine-1984-* returned 20 items. Twelve identifiers do not contain the letters rescan. Their months run 01 through 12, and each date begins 1984-MM-01. The issue numbers in those titles are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13. They sum to 81. The missing number is 10. October is Number 11. December is Number 13, Communications. January is Number 01, 1984 and Beyond - Future Trends. Eight rescans are dropped, including the ones whose titles garble a word.
AMBER The search record does not say why Number 10 is absent. A rescan can be the cleaner picture. This page still drops it, because the rule keeps one primary identifier for each month.
WALL No article, column, or advertisement from the magazines is copied. The page does not open the scans. It does not claim that Number 10 was never printed.
MODEL Twelve spines stand in month order. Height follows the issue number in the title, so October, Number 11, stands taller than September, Number 09. No cartridge is loaded.
Checking the stack.
Record: January, the first of the twelve
Seal sha256(name|slug|blurb): 2abd88b2e1edfe9a3abdc1f53587bb16937b7df7274102d717f7e49a384a8606