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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:13:39 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

>On 20/08/2024 16:30, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>> Edward Rawde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message
>>>> I preferred Popular Electronics myself.
>>>
>>> Just as elsewhere at the time you might only have had access to Rossiyskaya Elektronika.
>>> The world was smaller then.
>> 
>> Back when I was 21 and trying to come up to speed in RF, I learned a lot
>> from RF Design and Wireless World.
>
>WW was good on content but circuit diagrams in it were somewhat badly 
>typeset at times - just enough to make it tricky to get working.
>
>Elektor was the other European mag back then and it is still going. They 
>had a summer special with loads of circuit ideas much like IU. Quirky 
>resistors as rectangular boxes was one of their trademarks.

Do kids these days have similar guides to designing real electronics?

When I interview an engineer, recent grad or not, I give them my
2-resistor voltage divider test. Most start mumbling and can't do it.