At 03:06 PM 3/7/2014, Mark Hanchey 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. Now the >trend is to put links to the code, pcb, etc. That is fine for the month >that the magazine is published, but come a year or 2 later and links are >dead, software missing, it really hurts the value of the magazine by >making it a paper/online hybrid. Thankfully, the better magazines have excellent WWW resources that=20 date back to the earliest issues available. I'm thinking of: Nuts &=20 Volts, Servo Magazine, Circuit Cellar Ink, Elector - and a few others=20 that don't come to mind right now. You can download all of the=20 information needed to build the projects easily, at any time. However, the lack of longevity of WWW resources doesn't bother me as=20 much as it used to. Nowadays, I tend to download each new month's=20 information and save it locally. And, yes - I have redundant backups=20 for all of that data. dwayne --=20 Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .