[sdiy] Old electronics magazines

[David Anderson]

Yes, Popular Electronics (Don Lancaster and Forrest Mims were regular 
contributors)  and Radio Electronics (Lancaster, Mims, Ed Roberts, and 
John Simonton contributed many articles) were the two biggies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-Electronics

When Popular Electronics shifted away from projects in the mid 80s, 
Modern Electronics was started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Electronics

Also look out for Hands-On Electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands-On_Electronics

I assume you know about Polyphony/Electronic Musician.

If you're not yet a subscriber, check out Nuts and Volts. A few years 
ago there was a good series of articles on cmos and op amps.
http://www.nutsvolts.com/

You may also want to dig through old (late 60s-mid 80s) issues of 
Electronic Design Magazine and EDN.

In the UK, Electronics Today International was really good. Everyday 
Practical Electronics is pretty good too. Australia's Silicon Chip is a 
fun read. Elektor (from the Netherlands) started publishing in English 
in 1975; I've seen good articles in it.

A lot of these magazines turn up on eBay but I'd recommend going to your 
local library and seeing if you can get back issues on microfiche. Or 
hit up garage/estate sales.

David

On 12/15/2011 1:06 AM, dan snazelle wrote:
> thanks everyone!
>
> by the way, those BYTE magazines are AMAZING!
>
> were there other magazines from that time that had so much info on hardware? articles from lancaster,etc?
>
> wow
>