|
October 1960 Radio-Electronics
 [Table of Contents]
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics.
See articles from Radio-Electronics,
published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
|
 Wind down your workweek
with this triplet of electronics-related comics from a 1960 issue of
Radio-Electronics magazine. There are still plenty of us around who
understand the page 78 comic. We are the generation(s) who sometimes needed to
reach around to the back of the TV set and twist the vertical hold potentiometer
to get the picture to stop climbing up or down the screen. The incredible
feature of the comic is that the frame split appears to show the upper half of a
man and the lower half of a woman in the same frame. Because of the structure
and processing of the video signal signal, it would not have been due to parts of two
noncontiguous frames or two separate channels. If you don't understand what I'm
saying, it's because you weren't "there." Out of morbid curiosity, I "photoshopped"
the split display to swap the positions of the upper and lower images. The
result is at the upper left - they lined up perfectly without resizing either
half. Although extremely unlikely to be seen on TV in 1960, it could be an
Olympics women's boxing contender today (ugh!). Enjoy the other two comics.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"Hmmm..."
Page 78
"Pardon me, do you have a scrap of paper? There's a radio program
I don't want to miss."
Page 124
"All that hum needed was a little extra filtering."
Page
132
Posted August 2, 2024
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
250 pages as of 1/31/2025
|
|
|
|
|
