[ot1138]

My dad subscribed to these for many years from the 50s-70s. I used to sit in our attic reading old issues, with projects based around vacuum tubes, transistors, lasers (!) and even surveillance. It seriously ignited my love of engineering.

I came across new issues in the 90s as an adult and the articles seemed to be quite dumbed down. It had lost the magic of those old issues.

[bluedino]

Same here but from the 80's. Lots of early home computers and peripherals which were obsolete by the time I read them (early 90's)