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June 1957 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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You can tell by the fact that
four out of five of these tech-themed comics from Radio-Electronics magazine
concerned the repair of televisions that TVs were a big thing in 1957. The relatively
recent end of World War II and more recently the Korean War, left a lot of highly
trained and skilled troubleshooters and operators, so the field was fairly flooded
with qualified people. Men's magazines (Popular
Mechanics,
Mechanix Illustrated,
Popular
Science,
Popular Electronics, etc.) were always chock full of full-page advertisements
for
learn-at-home television repair courses for becoming a serviceman. A successful
electronics repairman could earn as much as $40 per week or more! As the comics
imply, there was a fairly significant love-hate relationship between TV owners and
TV repairmen - often justified on both sides. I took the liberty of colorizing them
for you.
Tech-Themed Comics
"You've got a partial failure of the cathode-ray tube,
a
fused activated coil and a bad correction central mechanism."
"What does that
mean?" "Oh, about $50." , page 59
"The symptoms are familiar. Loss of vertical sync, followed
by
the back accidentally falling off and three tubes changing sockets." , page
102
"Reception is so bad here that we have to have this control
to keep the snow from drifting.", page 104
"No, Mrs. Olsen, I still haven't found out
why your set
overheats.", page 119
"Well, you need to get your work for one thing.", page 132
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
275 pages as of 5/13/2026.
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