29 May
1998
29 May
'98
4:34 p.m.
I remember back in the soviet union there were a couple of good
magazines for young people that had projects in them.I was too young
to build any of them, and you'd have a hard time getting a blank
PCB there anyway, but they had a primitive rover-like robot (with
programmable modules based on the arrangement of electrical traces
on a cartridge), an RC boat, etc. I'd love to get my hands on one
of those. When I go back there (hopefully in a couple of years), I
will be sure to photocopy some of the stuff. Nothing like "build 99
projects" of today.
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> It's no loss IMO. Byte hasn't been worth the paper it was printed
on
Agreed. I stopped reading Byte shortly after the last 'Ciarcia's
Circuit
Cellar'. It's not that that was the only
interesting article in it -
many
of the programming articles were great as well. But all
the good stuff
went at about the same time, and Byte became yet another ready-built
PC-clone mag.
> for a looonnggg time. The same thing happened to Popular
Electronics,
another of
good OLD magazines.
Are there _any_ good electronics/computer mags left now (especially in
the UK)? Elektor used to be good, but recently it's all been
pre-programmed PLDs with no idea as to what's in them, controlled by
binary-only software for Microsoft OS's. No interest there for me...
Joe
-tony