---1981-1984 testube magazine experimented with many different formats, from newsletter to tabloid.
VOLUME 2 No. 1 & 2 December 1980-January 1981...24 page tabloid. $.50. --articles on NEW MEDIA, Computer Aided Design, Redesigning the Auto: "Destroy All Detroit", the "Solar Electric Chair"...Plus artist self-interviews by Linda Beck, Robert Warren Martens, John M. Bennett, and other art.
VOLUME 3: Five 7 page newsletters 8 1/2" x 11" plus Two 7" x 8 1/2" bagazines (newsletter with other things sold in bag)
VOLUME 3 No.1
VOLUME 3 No.2 High Speed Rail, New-Wave Scene Reports, World's (not) Fair.
VOLUME 3 No.3 Fanzines, Scene Reports, Independent Culture & Columbus.
VOLUME 3 No.4 "special report" EMERGING: Home Telecommunications & Independent Culture, Scene Reports.
VOLUME 3 No.5 "The COOL ISSUE", Scene Reports, Fashion reports, interview: The Dustbunnies.
mail order service begins.
VOLUME 3 No.6 June, 1983 "Hardcore Survival" bagazine with 45rpm single, matches, special bag: Hardcore Farming & Hardcore music.
VOLUME 3 No.7 August, 1983 bagazine "Fourth Anniversary Issue" Self-Awareness, Rating Cities for culture--included little booklets of ratings & resources.
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VOLUME 4 No. 1 FIRST CASSETTEZINE (audio cassette magazine) October 83. Local Hardcore, postcards, etc. in large envelope (silkscreened).
VOLUME 4 No.2 half tabloid. Thanksgiving 83. TKA Microinterview, music reviews.
VOLUME 4 No. 3 Cassettezine B "Prance":bands: Great Plains, P.I.N., etc.
VOLUME 4 No. 4 half-tabloid "Modern Cultural Development in a Small Town" looks at Tiffin, Ohio & John Quinn.
VOLUME 4 No. 5 "Psychic Issue" special small size. Testube Int'l. Mail Art Exhbit.
VOLUME 4 No. 6 bagazine with FLEXI-DISK record, tall tabloid, and Music Data File for 1984-85