kellys_eye
- Jun 25, 2010
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I love 'em - the electronics ones of course
I used to be an avid collector of the printed issues - as a kid it took up all my spending money and I purchased every issue of every type I knew of:
Wireless World
Practical Electronics
Practical Wireless
Everyday Electronics
Elektor
ETI
and, when I could get them (they were only rarely on the shelves), some of the 'foreign' magazine like Nuts and Volts
Now, I have them all on a HDD - pdf issues going back decades. I sold or dumped all the hard copies (with the usual regrets thereafter....) but can now sit and browses issue after issue for hours. My HDD contains nearly 150Gb of magazines!!! And I have this inane ability of (almost) being able to recognise or recall the articles from them!
I think I spotted an ETI circuit on here a while ago - you get to recognise the magazines by the way they did their schematics - and I know some magazines all the way from their inception (Elektor for one).
Do you keep your own 'library' for reference? Do you have any collections you'd like to exchange or pass on to help me build mine still further?
Here's a snapshot of the folder I keep. Obviously, if you want to exchange data it may require snail mail and DVDs as my internet connection (upload) is particularly slow....
It may also answer someone's other post on how I 'know so much stuff'...... I did say that 'I read - A LOT!'.
I used to be an avid collector of the printed issues - as a kid it took up all my spending money and I purchased every issue of every type I knew of:
Wireless World
Practical Electronics
Practical Wireless
Everyday Electronics
Elektor
ETI
and, when I could get them (they were only rarely on the shelves), some of the 'foreign' magazine like Nuts and Volts
Now, I have them all on a HDD - pdf issues going back decades. I sold or dumped all the hard copies (with the usual regrets thereafter....) but can now sit and browses issue after issue for hours. My HDD contains nearly 150Gb of magazines!!! And I have this inane ability of (almost) being able to recognise or recall the articles from them!
I think I spotted an ETI circuit on here a while ago - you get to recognise the magazines by the way they did their schematics - and I know some magazines all the way from their inception (Elektor for one).
Do you keep your own 'library' for reference? Do you have any collections you'd like to exchange or pass on to help me build mine still further?
Here's a snapshot of the folder I keep. Obviously, if you want to exchange data it may require snail mail and DVDs as my internet connection (upload) is particularly slow....
It may also answer someone's other post on how I 'know so much stuff'...... I did say that 'I read - A LOT!'.