Nuts and Volts Magazine is the last heir (IMO) of the "Radio Electronics/Popular Electronics" tradition. PE began to fade away when they decided to become a yet another "me too!" computer magazine in the great glut of carbon copy mags in the mid 80s. I kept buying "Poptronics", the last gasp of a combined PE/RE, even though they had been lame for a long time before the end. Ditto Wayne Green's "73" magazine, which used to be as thick as a catalog in the late 70s and early 80s and loaded with great reading. It really took a nose dive after he sold it off and then bought it back in the later 80s. Way too much rambling conspiracy, fad diet, miracle AIDS cure crap took over. I miss the old phone book sized issues of Byte, too, especially from the era when Robert Tinney did the covers and Leo Brodie provided cartoons.
Geez, I must be getting old!