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Electronics-Themed Comics
September 1961 Radio-Electronics
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September 1961 Radio-Electronics  [Table of Contents]
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged. |
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
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