enjoyed this video, I love seeing older electronics magazines and project books!
I suppose when I started fully getting into electronics was the time it really started to die for hobbyists, I remember reading all the books in school and borrowing as many as I could from the library, I managed to save up and bought funway 1 and funway 2 into electronics ( dick smith electronics books and these never really had any ads in them for test equipment, the older project books were far more interesting to me) sadly by the time id built all the projects in funway 2 and wanted to get funway 3 it got phased out and replaced by the " discovery " series and started to get out of my range of affordability, internet then became one of the broadest resources of all this amazing knowledge. I remember when a friend of the family found all these books he left in his shed and were getting damaged by the leaky roof so he handed them all to me!
project books
Talking electronics - security devices
Talking electronics -bugging and its prevention
eit - circuit techniques volume two ( the how, what, which, where, why and how much anthology of electronic components, circuits and techniques.) 1983
eti - simple projects volume 3
eti - top projects volume 4
eti - top projects volume 5
I still now refer to some of those books and some times just flick though them page by page over and over and wonder and wish I could get my hands on some of the test equipment from back then just cause of how it looked
out of all the projects this one out of volume 4 I found the most satisfying, one of the PCBS actually came with the books which were given to me but the other I had to make my self- ended up putting together a stereo amplifier after sourcing all the bits and after the 30 seconds I lost faith in audio gear available off the shelf for home use.
heres the backs of 2 of the books
bugging and its prevention on the left and eti simple projects vol 3 on the right
and seeing the add for this made me smile! I had been wondering how much they sold for here in Australia and that video answered that question for me.
Trio CS1560