On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Mark Hanchey <mark@pixeltrickery.com> wrote=
:

> The thing that made me look for alternatives to paper magazines is when
> they stopped publishing all the information I would need to build one of
> the projects. If you look at old magazines they had code listings, pcb
> images you could etch and everything needed to make it work.

This seems to be a general trend towards reducing the column-inch of
content to make space for more advertising.

What bothers me far more are the number of construction projects that
have even eliminated circuit descriptions making the magazine useless
as delivered in addition to useless down the road if you want to build
one of the projects as-is.  While it is rare that I would want to
build one of these circuits as presented, I have generally found these
articles *far* more useful for their circuit descriptions.  It is
largely from these circuit descriptions (in a time when detailed
circuit descriptions were published) that I learned how to design
circuits myself, and very often borrowed sub-blocks for my particular
use.

-p.
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