[sdiy] Old electronics magazines

[Tom Wiltshire]

In the UK, the Maplin magazine used to have some good stompbox and synth stuff, though that was not its main focus. Don't know if it's turned up on the web anywhere yet. I still have a soft spot for the autowah circuit from Maplin. It was a LM13700-based 12dB/oct SVF driven by an envelope follower, and had a very aggressive "waccawacca" sound.

T.

On 15 Dec 2011, at 14:10, David Anderson wrote:

> 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
>> 
> 
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