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Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?
MochaMan writes "I grew up in the '80s on a steady diet of Byte and Compute! magazines, banging in page after page of code line by line, and figuring out how sound, graphics, and input devices worked along the way. Since then, the personal computer market has obviously moved away from hobbyists intent on coding and understanding their machines down to the hardware, but I imagine there must still be a market for similar do-it-yourself articles. Perhaps the collective minds of Slashdot can divine some online sources of fun and educational mini-projects like 'write your own assembler' or 'roll your own bootloader.'"
Oh baby .. thats one hot little CPU you have there. Do you like to cluster with other systems, or do you just go down all by yourself?
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Outsourcing Magazine
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Am I the only still buying copies of 2600?
Am I the only leaving words out of my sentences?
Oh, I not.
I'm a 34 year old Gamer boy, and a Geek.
Michael
http://s1.sfgame.us/index.php?rec=58163
Am I the only still buying copies of 2600?
Am I the only leaving words out of my sentences?
Oh, I not.
I've never left a word out one of your sentences in my life!
Bow-ties are cool.
Rupert Murdoch will be glad to sell you a subscription.
Face-man's gonna have to bust him out first.
Bow-ties are cool.
I know Make. You call that lots of good info? Anyone with half a brain in this field knows that there is absolutely nothing to off-the-shelf systems electronics. So long as you're a hippie, a lousy coder, and have some half-assed knowledge about which way the battery goes, you can be a "maker." I doubt you'll ever see a single differential equation or an implementation of a quality piece of computer science in that magazine. It's catered to those who want to build some gizmo *now* without *really* caring to learn about what is going on. Instant gratification, minimal brain power.
If you care about really understanding electrical engineering, read something like Circuit Cellar. And even that's a somewhat casual take on the subject.