<story><title>Popular Electronics archives</title><url>http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cantrevealname</author><text>This site is one nasty lawyer&amp;#x27;s letter away from being lost forever. It&amp;#x27;s the unpaid[1] labor of love of a single person[2], far more than Popular Electronics[3], but appears to be unauthorized.&lt;p&gt;Whoever currently holds the rights to these journals should have no financial reason to order the material taken down, but they can still do so &amp;quot;just because&amp;quot;. This huge historical resource depends on the whims of old copyright holders and their lawyers.&lt;p&gt;Someone else here has pointed out that the Popular Electronics scans are also on the Internet Archive. I wonder how they deal with it; the issue must come up often for them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &amp;quot;There are no ads or things for sale on the site. I&amp;#x27;ve been in radio for better than 50 years. This site is a way of giving back.&amp;quot; From the FAQ: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&amp;#x2F;American-Radio-History-FAQ.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&amp;#x2F;American-Radio-History-F...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &amp;quot;Just one person does most of the work.&amp;quot; From the FAQ.&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&amp;#x2F;index.htm#TECHNICAL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&amp;#x2F;index.htm#TECHNICAL&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Popular Electronics archives</title><url>http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is glorius, consider this advertisement from Feb 1982&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reddy Chirra improves his vision with an Apple. Reddy is an optical engineer who&amp;#x27;s used to working for big companies and using big mainframes. But when he started his own consulting business, he soon learned how costly mainframe time can be. So he bought himself a 48K Apple II Personal Computer. And, like thousands of other engineers and scientists, quickly learned the pleasures of cutting downon shared time and having his own tamper -proof data 
base. His Apple can handle formulas with up to 80 variables and test parameters on 250 different optical glasses. He can even use BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Assembly languages. 
And Apple&amp;#x27;s HI-RES graphics come in handy for design. Reddy looked at other microcomputers, but chose Apple for its in -depth documentation, reliability and expandability. Youcan get up to 64K RAM in an Apple II. Up to 128K RAM in our new Apple III. And there&amp;#x27;s a whole family of compatible peripherals, including an IEEE -488 bus for laboratory instrument control.&lt;p&gt;Visit your authorized Apple dealer to find out how 
far an Apple can go with scientific&amp;#x2F; technical applications. It&amp;#x27;ll change the way you see things. The personal computer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember that this was competing with the original IBM PC (1981) so something of a pitch. With a machine which was somewhat less powerful computationally to an Arduino but with more RAM and a lot less ROM (or FLASH in the ATMega case).</text></comment>