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August 1963 Radio-Electronics
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics.
See articles from Radio-Electronics,
published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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These three
electronics-themed comics appeared in the August 1963 issue of Radio-Electronics
magazine. The subjects are things at the forefront of most peoples' minds in the
day, but are either completely unknown to the current generation and
long-forgotten by nearly everyone else. It's only people like me (and maybe you)
who like to wax nostalgic about life during what we perceive as a simpler
existence with less social craziness and greater personal freedoms. The comic on
page 46 is pretty clever, but it could just be that the artist was inspired by
the concept of a horizontally polarized
magnetic loop - or a simple
wire loop - antenna. Electronic kit building (p96) was a big thing with
hobbyists both because of the satisfaction that results when your efforts are
rewarded with a functioning radio or TV or multimeter or other such device, and
because at the time it was often less expensive than purchasing a factory-built
model. Kits often contained higher quality components than what came in
ready-to-use equivalents, so they lasted longer, and if they did fail, your
familiarity with the construction and operation made them easier to align and/or
repair. To understand the page 99 comic, you'd have to have battled with trying
to stabilize the picture on a vintage IC-free TV when the sync went kablooie.
Electronics-Themed Comics
Page 46
"What did you do with C16?"
Page 96
"Horizontal jitters, my eye! I'm calling the Vet!"
Page
99
Posted June 29, 2023
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 12/16/2025.
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