[sdiy] Old electronics magazines

[Mark Codling]

Not to my knowledge can't see it on web site anywhere..

Buy I guess a nice email from the forum might be worth a try.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/contact-form is customer services contact point.
or  customercare at maplin.co.uk

a while back ian taylor mentioned he had some old mags... ?

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: dan snazelle [mailto:subjectivity at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 15 December 2011 18:49
To: Mark Codling
Cc: 'Tom Wiltshire'; 'David Anderson'; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Old electronics magazines

do they sell the cds?

thanks



On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Mark Codling wrote:

> The mapin support team have all the old mags on CD.
> I managed to get them to track down a digital delay kit article for me.
> 
> If you get the right guy on the right day he might have a trawl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Wiltshire
> Sent: 15 December 2011 15:16
> To: David Anderson
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Old electronics magazines
> 
> 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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