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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: ELECTRONICS, R.I.P.
Message-ID: <3860@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 14:17:57 GMT
References: <79700011@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <79700012@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <79700012@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>So does anyone know the REAL reason why ELECTRONICS was bagged?
[...]
>Why buy a magazine to shut it down?

To get its subscriber list, perhaps.

My personal experience with Electronics is I subscribed to it in the late
60's and early 70's but dropped it by mid 70's because, while it was the
best, they had no free subscriptions (at that time), and several freebees
combined were as good (perhaps better).  Particularly good then and now
are Electronic Design and EE Times (esp. for rumors!).  A good bet now
is to join the IEEE Computer Society and get Computer and Micro magazines.
Not too likely they will be reviewing 10 PC/AT clones! (I hope!)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.tek.com
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