Ob.sci.electronics.nostalgia: Elementary Electronics & Radio Electronics

Q: I was just wondering, does anyone know if Elementary Electronics or Radio Electronics are still put out? I had subscriptions to them when I was a kid (I am, as the elf in the Santa Claus movie says, "entirely elf-taught"). If not, what are the popular zines these days? And what are the popular pro-level mags? I've recently been inducted into Fresenius USA and am starting to put all this knowledge from my youth to work again, so I'm thinking of getting more involved in the magazines again.

A: -What are you doing, what info do you need? There are dozens of 'zines today, most free, and addressed to specific sub-fields. Or if you're just looking for the general, hobbqist type, Radio Electronics has changed to Electronics Now. Another good newcomer is Nuts and Volts, available by sub. or at hamfests. -"Elementary Electronics" and "Radio-TV Experimenter" are at least 20 years dead. As is "Electronics Illustrated" And the old Ziff Davis "Electronics World". "Popular Electronics" got Ziffed* by turning it into a computer magazine which died. The staff from there went and formed "Modern Electronics" which was renamed to "ComputerCraft" which then renamed itself (a year or so ago) to "Microcomputer Journal" which is still published every 2 months. (From the same publisher that does CQ magazine, I think.) "Radio-Electronics" was renamed a couple of years ago to "Electronics Now" and is pretty much the same as it's been for that past 15 or 20 years. What's sold now as "Popular Electronics" is another magazine published by Gernsback, that used to be called "Hands On Electronics". Pretty close to the orginal, though. Also worth getting is "The Computer Applications Journal" formerly know as "Circuit Cellar Ink". Predominatly digital stuff, but so is everything these days. ;-) In the last issue, they hinted that they are going to rename it or do something next month, so the name may change again, or back to what it used to be. Also "Nuts & Volts" a classified ad tabloid with an increasing amount of article content. And "Midnight

Engineering", a strange mixture of entrapreneurs and computers/electronics magazine. With the execption of Nuts & Volts, all of these should be on a well stocked magazine rack, for example at a Tower or Borders Books. For the Pro mags, the old "Electronics" is dead in spirit if not in name. Last I saw, it was a 16 page biweekly business gossip rag. Another victim. There a big void between the press release listings like "EDN", "Electronic Design", "Electronics Products" and the PhD level journals where the integral signs leap out of the page and strangle you. Maybe some of the IEEE general interest magazines, and "Electronics + Wireless World" from the UK.