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April 1967 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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Here are a few
tech-themed comics from the April 1967 edition of Popular Electronics magazine depicting the perception
of techies during the era. As mentioned before, stereo equipment was a big deal
in the era, back before most people listened to music through ear buds attached
to smartphones. When in the USAF in the early 1980s, a sure sign of hipness was
to have 19" equipment rack in your barracks room, stuffed full with a
reel-to-reel tape deck, a high end AM/FM receiver ("tuner," to the audiophile),
power amplifier that could deliver at least 200 W per channel, a dual cassette
deck, turntable (referring to it as a "phonograph" revealed your squareness). Of
course no self-respecting stereo aficionado would be caught dead with an 8-track
tape deck in the rack. Things really haven't changed much when it comes to
serious audiophiles, except now a CD/DVD player will be included. Popular Electronics was published from October 1954
through April 1985 - a 31 year run. In January 1972,
Electronics
World magazine was combined with Popular Electronics.
The Hobbyist ...as seen by Walt Miller
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"Come on, Ed, I'll show you how to make an oscilloscope out of your TV set."
" ... and two 36-inch tweeters."
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"It was a real buy ... 29 cents a pound."
"I'm getting closer to the trouble ... I've got it playing three minutes before
the fuse blows.
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These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines.
I personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized
some).
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Posted May 13, 2019
(updated from original post on 7/18/2012)
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