I have my stack of Byte magazines still, but I much prefer going back through the Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia (1977-) pile.

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01

Terrific Ohio Scientific!

I love the old ads lol. Except I also read these mags back in the 80s.

Is there a way to do a text search on those magazines?

I think there are searchable .pdf's on archive, and OCR dumps (which aren't completely accurate but butter than nuthting)

They are OCR-ed. In the web viewer click on the magnifier icon on the left toolbar, or you can download them in PDF, EPUB or other formats.