Elrad – Magazin für Elektronik und technische Rechneranwendung (Magazine for electronics and technical applied computing) was a popular German computer magazine

Magazine

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 for a semi-professional audience, published by the Heinz Heise

Heinz Heise

Heinz Heise is a publishing house based in Germany.- History :Heise was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections. In 2001, the company was divided into separate enterprises, all of which came...

 publishing house from November 1977 to June 1997.

In 1983, one of elrad's supplements, computing today, was separated into an own publication, the now popular magazine c't

C't

c't – Magazin für Computertechnik is a German computer magazine, published by the Heinz Heise publishing house. Originally a special section of the electronics magazine elrad, the magazine has been published monthly since December 1983 and biweekly since October 1997...

. In 1992, elrad swallowed the German magazine Der Elektroniker which then ceased to exist as a separate entity.

The name rights and subscription base were sold to Bruchmann publishers in 1997 who continued to publish the magazine from July 1997 until their bankruptcy in 1998. The last issue under new ownership was published in August 1998. In 2005 Heise published an archive DVD with facsimile

Facsimile

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s of all issues published under its ownership.