''Modern Electronics'' was a hobbyist magazine published from October 1984 to March 1991. It became ''Computer Craft'' in April 1991 and the name changed again to ''MicroComputer Journal'' in January 1994. Modern Electronics, Inc. was owned by CQ Communications, Inc, the publishers of '' CQ Amateur Radio''. Art Salsberg was Editor-in-Chief and Alexander W. Burawa was the Managing Editor. The contributing editors included Len Feldman,

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, Forrest Mims and Don Lancaster. Many members of the editorial staff had previously worked for ''

Popular Electronics ''Popular Electronics'' was an American magazine published by John August Media, LLC, and hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com. The magazine was started by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in October 1954 for electronics hobbyists and experimenters. It soo ...

'' but left when that magazine was changed to ''Computers & Electronics''. Here is how Art Salsberg described the new magazine.

Many of you probably know of me from my decade-long stewardship of Popular Electronics magazine, which changed its name and editorial philosophy last year to distance itself from active electronics enthusiasts who move fluidly across electronics and computer product areas. In a sense, then, Modern Electronics is the successor to the original concept of Popular Electronics …

Earlier use of title

The title ''Modern Electronics'' was used by another magazine that ran from February to October 1978. It was published by the Coean Publishing Corporation of Port Washington New York. The publisher was Richard A Cowan and the

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s were Anthony Curtis and Mort Walters. Coean Publishing did not register a trademark for the title ''Modern Electronics'' so it was available for Art Salsberg to use in 1984.US Trademark for MODERN ELECTRONICS, Trademark Serial Number 73511303, Filing Date November 30, 1984, First Use In Commerce: 19840808, Owner (Registrant) Modern Electronics, Inc.

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