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I think the amount of technology made those magazines so much more exciting than today's computer magazines which are almost always about computers as black box
by lbriner 4y ago
I think the amount of technology made those magazines so much more exciting than today's computer magazines which are almost always about computers as black boxes or marketing nonsense or pure software with no hardware applications.
Back then, I used to dream about buying an eprom programmer!
I miss electronics...
- schlauerfox 4y agoIt is still around if you look, new Single Board Computers, dev boards, kits for 'retro' computers. It's still just as big as it ever was, the difference is the mainstream is WAY bigger, just like Apple and Microsoft has sabotaged DIY and left that behind and makes money on hiding the DIY behind their convenience gardens. Check out adafruit or digikey or element14 or keysight or any of the gamejams and hackathons. Makerspaces. PICO-8. Circuit Cellar, Nuts & Volts magazines. It was a HOBBY back then, and the hobby still exists just like there are ham radio clubs, but the industry it spawned has largely overshadowed it. Life is what you make of it, put in the effort if you really miss it, you'll find good company!
- ncmncm 4y agoOnce you start buying easy-to-program microcontroller gadgets from Crowd Supply and Adafruit Industries, it is hard to stop. Nowadays they all have bluetooth built in, so can be controlled wholly from your phone; no buttons, display, or even USB connector needed.
- kragen 4y agoAlso I'll mention FPGAs (and in particular icestorm), RISC-V, RTL-SDR, USRP, NOAA satellite signals, 3-D printers, ODrive, Hackaday, JLCPCB, EEVblog, and Arduino.