Virginia Williamson (alsoVirginia Londner Green andVirginia Peschke) was the co-founder, owner and publisher ofByte magazine. She founded the magazine in 1975 together with her ex-husband,Wayne Green the founder/publisher of the amateur radio magazine73.[1][2] In early 1981, Byte magazine, under Williamson's leadership, became the only computer publication included inFolio’s prestigious Folio 400 list of the largest U.S. magazines.[2]
She sold the magazine toMcGraw-Hill in 1979,[3] but remained publisher until 1983.[2][4][5] She later married Gordon Williamson, who in 1988 published a book about her ex-husband Wayne Green, titledSee Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run. Williamson died in 2015.[6]
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