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July 1961 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 high tech
comics for your enjoyment from the pages of the July 1961 edition of Electronics
World magazine. I'm guessing the joke in the page 72 comic is that unknown parts were/are generically
referred to as "Brand X," so hopefully that would bring in customers who
couldn't identify components (which the repairman probably could). It could also
be an unintended warning that if "Brand X" (knockoff part) is sold there, then
there is a good chance inferior parts will be used in the repair. The
page 94 comic is yet another play on the huge popularity of home hi-fidelity
(hi-fi) sound systems of the day. Amplifiers still used vacuum tubes so building
speaker driver circuits that could handle hundreds of watts was easy to do.
Finding speakers to handle that power (and getting neighbors to tolerate the
noise level) was the challenge. There is a large list of other comics at the end
of this page.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"Bob, you haven't heard hi-fi until you've heard mine!"
(page 94)
"We Carry Brand X Parts" (page 72)
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
272 pages as of 2/15/2026.
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