MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Greg Mayman:

 MR> "Greg Mayman" bravely wrote to "Mike Ross" (29
Nov 04  08:12:00) 
 MR> --- on the heady topic of "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC"

 -=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC" on 11-23-04  23:36.....
 MR> Perhaps Silicon Chip only tested for what it wanted to test and
 MR> . We can't assume to know what
 MR> they did or didn't do, can we?

 GM> Oh, yes I think we can, in the case of this magazine.

 GM> Like the now-defunct Electronics Australia and Electronics Today,
 GM> Silicon Chip tries to do the utmost for their readers with their
 GM> projects, not just provide entertainment.

 MR> That is a laudable goal because in the past most such magazines
 MR> were only really interested in the publishing aspects and the
 MR> bottom line. I still remember 80-Micro Magazine dropping their
 MR> TRS-80 readers to specialize in only the PC and their clones. This
 MR> was a deliberate slap in the face to the subscribers who supported
 MR> the magazine from the start. The same sort of thing happened with
 MR> Popular Electronics when it dropped most of the electronics
 MR> hobbiest content to become Computers & Electronics with very little
 MR> electronics in effect. 

Yes,  I remember a number of magazines that tried to pull that crap. 
Deciding that they weren't gonna do what they were doing any more,  and
that they were going to start sending you something else instead.  For a
while I was getting "LAN Technology",  which was all sorts of
deep stuff about working on networks,  at a time when people didn't have
networks at home,  involving all sorts of very expensive and specialized
test equipment,  and so forth.  I don't know how large of an audience such
a magazine might have had,  but it sure wasn't anywhere near as big as
would be required to justify the circulation of a specialized magazine like
that.  They eventually folded completely.

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