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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.'"
The Internet is this magazine.
Maximum PC is to 80s Byte/Computer as microwaved Ramen Noodles are to a Home-Cooked, Four Course Meal.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
This is really disappointing to me as well. I've been a subscriber since its inception, but I'm about to let it drop. I know which end of a soldering gun to hold. I don't have a desire to add a toggle switch to a toy to impress hipsters.
Where are the articles like:
- Build a high quality mass spectrometer (http://old.4hv.org/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=1268)
- Convert a cheap Chinese milling machine to CNC (http://www.hossmachine.info/)
- Build a Tesla Turbine and reap geothermal energy.
It went from being "Make useful stuff" to "Make crap to impress dumb people"