December 1958 Popular Electronics
Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Popular Electronics,
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
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A few days ago I posted an old ad for
Radio Shack and
mentioned the tube testers that used to be in the stores for customers to use free of charge. Of course
they also had a nice stock of replacement tubes for you to buy if needed. This advertisement for a typical
tube tester by Century Electronics appeared in the December 1958 edition of Popular Electronics. According
to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator, that $134.50 price in 1958 (the year I was born) would be
equivalent to $1,080.50 in 2013 money - not too bad really especially since today such a contraption
would be built in China.
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