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Most trade magazines of that era were pretty similar in size and number of ads , eg. PC Magazine. Pre-Internet they were one of the only ways to keep up with in
by loloquwowndueo 6mo ago
Most trade magazines of that era were pretty similar in size and number of ads , eg. PC Magazine. Pre-Internet they were one of the only ways to keep up with industry news, topics and products.
- sizzzzlerz 6mo agoThere were, and still are, a number of magazines in the electronics industry, EDN, for example, that were available for free to engineers that were 75% ads with a few articles. The publishers and advertisers expected the articles to draw the engineers who would be the ones to spec components for their current designs.
- asdefghyk 6mo agoEDN - Voice of the Engineer https://www.edn.com https://www.edn.com Electronic Design News (EDN) is an electronics community for engineers, by engineers. Find the latest articles, magazines, tools, and blogs in the industry. I like their tear downs of electronic equipment. https://www.edn.com/category/design/under-the-hood-teardown/page/2/ https://www.edn.com/category/design/under-the-hood-teardown/... Sadly Internet archive does not have a complete collection of old EDN magazines ....
- hypercube33 6mo agoThen there was computer shopper...man I'd get 8 months out of one of those just paging through and dreaming