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Systems Contractor News is a trade publication produced by United Media Entertainment Publications of New York, the publishers of Pro Sound News magazine, EQ magazine and other well known audio and video industry magazines. SCN is aimed at the growing market of systems integrators, those contractors and consultants that are dealing with the convergance of audio, video, communication, security and data technologies in the digital realm. The magazine offers a view to where the industry is at and where it may be going.
Barry McKinnon, is a principal and senior systems designer for Mc2 System Design Group, and one of the Contributing Consultants to the magazine, has been part of the anchor editorial group from the inception of the publication. He is a regular columnist for the publication, providing Commentary articles on a variety of issues that are relevant to all of us in the electronic communications industry. Several of these articles are available here, with permission of the publisher:
May 1999 System Measurement and the Contractor
April 1999 Serial Killer
March 1999 Specific-expect-ations
January 1999 The End of the 3 Ring Circus
October 1998 Getting to Acceptance
July 1998 Design? Build? Design/Build?
April 1998 Speaking of New...
February 1998 When the New Wears Off
December 1997 Spinout on the Learning Curve
September 1997 Technology Goes to School
June 1997 Thinking Outside the Packing Carton
May 1997 The Web Expands
April 1997 High Voltage Frustration for Low Voltage Contractors
March 1997 The Safety Margin in Life Safety Systems
January 1997 The Digital Future is Closer Than you Think
November 1996 The Purpose of Multipurpose Rooms
September 1996 Sometimes You Break the Code, Sometimes the Code Breaks You
July 1996 How to be an Isolationist
June 1996 Seeing The Architectural Problems in Projection System Design
April 1996 The Paging System Blues
February 1996 Exploring the Face-Time Continuum
December 1995 When the Medium Hides the Message
October 1995 Theatre in a Box
August 1995 Media Retrieval or Medieval Retrieval
June 1995 Skirmishes in the Corporate Theatre of Operations
May 1995 The Message is Information
March 1995 Future of the Handshake in the Copper Conference Room
January 1995 Writing an Equipment Expectation
October 1994 State of the Arts Technology
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