# What magazines do you miss?

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**Created:** [June 3, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931 "2014-06-03T15:34:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/81 "2014-06-13T07:59:24Z")

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My picks:  
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[li]_**[COMPUTE!'s Gazette](https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette)**_. I had almost every single issue and must have read them cover to cover a dozen times each. To this day I bet I can still give you the answer to every reader question from the “Feedback” column. I also enjoyed _**[RUN](https://archive.org/details/run-magazine)**_. Both magazines are now available from the Internet Archive.[/li][li]_**[Verbatim: The Language Quarterly](http://www.verbatimmag.com/)**_. This was a magazine all about language and linguistics, aimed at a non-specialist audience. It never officially ceased publication, though there hasn’t been a new issue for about ten years. I recently contacted the editor, Erin McKean, and she said she’s in talks with a university which is interested in taking over publication, so we might see an end to the hiatus soon. (In the meantime I’ve been reading a new full-colour print and online language magazine, _[Babel: The Language Magazine](http://www.babelzine.com/)_, from the University of Huddersfield.)[/li][li]_**[Variant Chess](http://www.mayhematics.com/v/v.htm)**_ was a magazine from the British Chess Variants Society all about games based on chess. It’s where I learned about my favourite gave of inductive logic, [Penultima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penultima).[/li][/ul]

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/82 "2014-06-13T10:36:47Z")

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[The Duelist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duelist) a Magazine dedicated to Magic the Gathering.

of course at the time I was not only a player I also had a game store.

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/83 "2014-06-13T12:39:16Z")

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I remember _Discover_ being a cool magazine back in the 1980s. It later morphed into a green energy / politically-left mag. ☹

What I miss most of all, however, are the electronics hobbyists magazines. I still have some issues of _Popular Electronics_ from the 1970s. Really great stuff in there. It’s sad that so few people nowadays tinker with electronics.

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