[sdiy] Formant and ASM-1

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Gene Stopp <gene at ixiacom.com>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Formant and ASM-1
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:59:09 -0700

> Yes! They actually inferred that they were partially guilty by dropping "The
> Amatuer Scientist"!

Ah, lovely, some self-criticism at least.

> The magazine is certainly not what it used to be. Some kind of disturbing
> trend here. It's pretty watered down now. Question - does exist an
> alternative now? I could use something hardcore. Something like "Mad
> Scientist Digest". What's out there? Anybody?

Haven't you read Synth-DIY lately? Tube-ladder? Hallo??? Here we are
running around in wierd circles and mess with fundamentals... if that
doesn't count as hardcore and Mad Scientist then you've been on
Synth-DIY for too long! >;O)

> I think I'm going to check out Circuit Cellar next...

Oh... ahh.... I recall when I had Byte and read Circuit Cellar. I
dropped out on my Byte habbit when they lost character and dropped
Circuit Cellar among other things. I liked when they where digging
into hardware and stuff. You learnt the machine by that.

I also had the Swedish variant of Elektro, Allt om Elektronik ("All
about elektronics") which I grew up with. They had their store (and
only store) just 500 meters of my school. Guess where I hang around?
They too somewhat dropped out of interest. Still some semi-interesting
projects around, but they doesn't give me as much. I guess my level of
advancement prohibits me from getting the same kicks from that journal
as it used to. Now days I have to get my kicks elsewhere... (no,
Champain doesn't do it!)

Cheers,
Magnus