The Cobro book is intended for Purchasing and Engineering professionals in the Northwest electronics industry. It has been published twice a year since 1983. If you work in the Northwest United States, or just need to know Northwest electronics suppliers, the Northwest Electronics Buyers Guide (the "Cobro book") is all you need.

The book has five sections:

• Quick Reference - alphabetical listing of suppliers and their phone and fax numbers
• Manufacturers - alphabetical listing of manufacturers, with their distributors and reps and their phone numbers.
• Vendors - line card information on each distributor and representative
• Services - PCB fabricators, Board Assembly houses, Contract Manufacturers, etc.
• Products - alphabetical listing of over 4,000 product categories and the manufacturers that produce each one.

The book has a circulation of 1500 and is published twice a year in March and September. The book is available to order in single issues, subscriptions, or "subscriptions plus".

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The first Northwest Electronics Buyers Guide was published in December of 1983. The original information was compiled on a Commodore Vic 20, and later on a Radio Shack TRS80, Model 100. Data transfers at 300 baud took so long that it was much faster to drive the 20 miles we were sending the data.

It took eight hours to print the master copy on a dot matrix printer in a very cold basement. It was printed on brown paper, one-side only, at a local quick-print shop, and bound with a GBC spiral. It included information on 47 Pacific Northwest distributors. There were no advertisements.

Today the book is printed and distributed twice a year, containing information on over 400 distributors, manufacturers representatives and service providers. The information is extracted from a much larger, nationwide database maintained on the internet, at electrobase.com.