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From: dmturne@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Hobby
Message-ID: <5992@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 91 00:34:19 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.184140.22842@cbnewse.att.com> <1840029@hpsad.HP.COM> <787@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmturne@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <787@ssc.UUCP> markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes:
>Hands-On Electronics was renamed to Popular Electronics a couple of
>years ago when Gernsback (Radio-Electronics) got the name.
>
>The original Popular Electronics was killed off by Ziff-Davis around
>1984.  It mutated into a computer mag (Computers and Electronics)
>which died.
>Elementary Electronics, Radio-TV Experimenter, Electronics Illustrated,
>and Electronics World are all dead and gone for 15 or 20 years.

Electronics World was absorbed by Popular Electonics sometime in the late
'60s or early '70s.

My memory is getting vague but I think that Radio-TV Experimenter was
once Radio-TV News and maybe also Radio Craft but now it is called
Radio-Electronics.


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