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High Tech Comics
July 1961 Electronics World
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July 1961 Electronics World 
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Electronics World, published May 1959 - December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged. |
Here are a couple high tech comics for your enjoyment from the pages of the July 1961 edition of Electronics World magazine. I'm guessing the joke in the page 72 comic is that unknown parts were/are generically referred to as "Brand X," so hopefully that would bring in customers who couldn't identify components (which the repairman probably could). It could also be an unintended warning that if "Brand X" (knockoff part) is sold there, then there is a good chance inferior parts will be used in the repair. The page 94 comic is yet another play on the huge popularity of home hi-fidelity (hi-fi) sound systems of the day. Amplifiers still used vacuum tubes so building speaker driver circuits that could handle hundreds of watts was easy to do. Finding speakers to handle that power (and getting neighbors to tolerate the noise level) was the challenge. There is a large list of other comics at the end of this page.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"Bob, you haven't heard hi-fi until you've heard mine!" (page 94)
"We Carry Brand X Parts" (page 72)
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