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January 1963 Electronics World
Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Electronics World, published May 1959
- December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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Here are a couple more
electronics-themed comics from Electronics World, good for winding down the
week.
They appeared in the January 1963 issue. The page 86 comic reminds me of the
professor I had for solid state circuit design. He was supposedly the first
person to successfully use gallium arsenide (GaAs) as a semiconductor, although
he also did pioneering work with silicon. Anyway, Prof. Anderson would say he
takes at least one "business" trip each year to Portugal in order to search for
higher quality raw semiconductor material in sand on the beaches. He spoke
Portuguese, BTW. The page 89 comic is reminiscent of the pre-GPS days of
navigation. Raise you hand if you ever drove around utterly lost while looking
for an off-the-beaten-path location. How about driving through an unfamiliar
city using a crummy paper map, and then hitting a blocked off or missing road?
Since getting my first GPS in the 2011 Jeep Patriot, I rarely drive anywhere
without the moving map displayed and the nice lady in the dashboard providing
reminders for when to turn. These and the other comics in the huge list at the
bottom of the page make good fodder for
opening your technical presentations.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"For some reason the boss thinks I rigged the computer's analysis
of its own best operating location"
January 1963 Electronics World (p86)
"This is the road all right, I can see it."
January 1963
Electronics World (p89)
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
275 pages as of 5/13/2026.
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