People old and young enjoy waxing nostalgic about and learning some of the history
of early electronics. Electronics World, having been rebirthed from its
former incarnation as Radio & TV News
(and Radio News before that) was published from May 1959 through January
1972, when it became part of
Popular Electronics. See the full history traced in "For
the Record" in the August 1954 Radio & Television News. For all
of the articles posted a page is created with a cover image and the table of contents.
All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools"
in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide
me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing
my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet)
was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity.
Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line,
and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...
