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February 1962 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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Take time out of your
busy workday to look at these three electronics-themed comics from the February
1962 issue of Radio-Electronics. The page 32 comic reminds me of sometime
in the late 1970s while working as an electrician (prior to enlisting in the USAF)
when I was doing side jobs, and a guy had me wire up a receptacle for his big 25"
screen (CRT) which he had mounted in a wall, with the chassis sticking out the back.
It was in an upstairs room in a Cape Cod style house with lots of room behind the
wall. He was a "man cave" pioneer
with a full suite of high quality audiovisual equipment - even a
Betamax machine! The page 81
comic exhibits the irony that would have existed in the day if American-made electronics
equipment had been promoted in Japan, which they probably were not. In 1962, Japanese
products did not enjoy a particularly good reputation in the U.S., but by the 1980s,
they were deemed superior from a cost-performance viewpoint. The page 94 comic is another
scenario you would not find in today's work environment - a cigarette butt! BTW,
I took the liberty of colorizing the images.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"That's the trouble with these built-in sets."
Page 32
Page 81
"New type of capacitor, my eye! That's a filter-tip butt!"
Page 94
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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