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January 1962 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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I have written before about
the love-hate relationship a lot of the buying public had with television and radio
repair shops and repairmen - similar to car owners and mechanics. Lots of jokes
and skits (what today is termed a "meme") were created back in the heyday of in-home
entertainment to make light of the situation. These four electronics-themed comics
from a 1962 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine are typical examples. The
one from page 111 alludes to an issue that would almost never be seen today
on a TV, unless maybe the AC power supply was on the fritz. A composite analog broadcast
signal contained vertical and horizontal sync[ronization] components which were
used to assure the raster scan began each frame at the same point on the cathode
ray tube (CRT). If it didn't, then the picture would be unsteady until the Horiz
Sync and Vert Sync potentiometers on the back of the set were adjusted to firm up
the picture. Yeah, that's old hat to those of us who had TVs prior to the digital
transmission era, but the ranks of Millennials who never experienced such phenomena
are growing quickly.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"You have a wastebasket?"
Page 86
"Sorry, I forgot to tell you the tubes in that set screw in."
Page 99
"We won't be able to get to that till New Year's eve. "
Page 101
"Say, maybe it is me!"
Page 111
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
269 pages as of 11/5/2025.
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