20 years of BYTE - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 May 1998

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

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