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Electronics-Themed Comics
October 1961 Electronics
World & October 1956 Popular Electronics
Here are three electronics-themed comics from vintage issues of Electronics World and Popular Electronics magazines. My favorite is the page 84 comic where the sign on the Telco Rectifier Components president's wall is apropos. Maybe one of the interview questions for job applicants was #1: "Did you notice the sign on the wall in the waiting room," and #2: "Did you 'get it?,' and please explain." In 1956 when that comic appeared, AC-to-DC power supplies used high voltage vacuum tubes, typically 300 volts or more. Hefty capacitors were needed to remove enough ripple from the "top" of the DC to render it undetectable in the circuit output - especially if the output was audio where a 60 or 120 Hz (50 or 100 Hz in Europe) "hum" could be detected superimposed on the audio. Even in video signals, threshold detectors in analog decoder circuits could trigger at the wrong level with excess ripple. In 1963, when the page 89 comic appeared, a service call by a TV technician was about $1 to get him to the house, then time an material after that. The implied $34 speeding ticket would be equivalent to $348 in today's money (10x inflation since then, if you believe The Man's numbers). These comics make good fodder for opening your technical presentations. I colorized the original B&W drawings.
Electronics-Themed Comics
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October 1961 Electronics World 
Table of Contents
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. |
"Farnsworth has a nice technique when they mention the trouble."
October 1961 Electronics World (p87)
"That's 34 service calls you owe me."
October 1963 Electronics
World (p89)
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October 1956 Popular Electronics  Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged. |
October 1956 Popular Electronics (p84)
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