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September 1961 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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More electronics-themed
comics here, this time from a 1961 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine.
Based on the page 63 comic, it seems maybe the dumbing down of kit builders began
earlier than I thought. Actually it was heyday of electronics kit builders, when
a do-it-yourselfer could expect to save money by assembling a radio, television,
oscilloscope, public address system, and many other such items, himself for a something
comparable in quality and features to an off-the-shelf equivalent, or to pay about
the same price but have a kit with higher quality and/or more features. The page
88 comic has the doc griping about interference with his
diathermy machine (which
induced heating in human tissues via RF energy) by TV sets; however, given the big
deal being made about
x-rays
leaking from the high voltage section of color TVs, it could have been griping about
interference with his x-ray machine.
Electronics-Themed Comics
"It's the new deluxe kit - all I have to do is put the knobs
on."
Page 63
"The TV sets in the neighborhood are distorting my diathermy
machine."
Page 88
Posted September 11, 2024
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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