Re: RE:[OT] Magazines was FW: The demise of Maplin

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info, Keith

Gonna check out them links now :-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Doxey" <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:41 PM
Subject: RE:[OT] [ukha_d] Magazines was FW: The demise of Maplin


> Hi Neil
>
> Both still trading.
>
> Magenta http://www.magenta2000.co.uk
> Greenweld http://greenweld.co.uk
>
> I never bought Hobby Electronics which was an offshoot of ETI.
>
> I started with Everyday Electronics and Practical Electronics in 1973
and
> added Electronics Today International in 1976. I bought electronics
and
> Music Maker when Maplin started it and it then became Electronics and
> Beyond. I also had a spell of buying Elektor as well.
>
> I now just get two.....
> the snappily titled 3 for 1 offering
>
> "Everyday Practical Electronics incorporating Electronics Today
> International"
>
> and "Electronics and Beyond"
>
> By Disco Lights you are obviously remembering the liquid colour wheels
for
> Optikinetics projectors which were one a mainstay of nightclub
lighting.
> They are still in production. Take a look at http://www.optikinetics.com/
> to see some of the designs. I think that the ones you refer to had
names
> like "Orgy" but in these more politically correct times
these seem to have
> been discontinued.
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil F [SMTP:automated@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 October 2000 13:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] FW: The demise of Maplin
>
> There was also 'Magenta Electronics' & 'Greenweld'....They gone
too?
>
> Have to agree with all comments made about Maplin...Does anyone
remember
> the
> 'spacey' disco light filters that Maplin used to do c1979 ?? Some
saucy
> ones
> i seem to remember! (Hey! I was 12 year old boy :-) )
> Anyone got any old 'Hobby Electronics' mags? I'd love a scan of the
cover
> of
> one for noststalgia sake...the only one I remember had a grandfather
clock
> on it with a seven segment LED display.
>
> Neil
>
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