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Title: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: westfw on September 16, 2015, 11:11:33 pm
Includes nearly complete online archives of Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and Byte Magazine (plus many others!)

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm)
Title: Re: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: AF6LJ on September 16, 2015, 11:13:25 pm
I love that site, a really good resource for those old perodicals we use to love to read. :)
Title: Re: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: Richard Crowley on September 17, 2015, 12:12:44 am
YES, some great stuff in those magazines.
I learned most of what I know about electronics from reading those as a kid.
I probably studied them more than my formal school assignments   :o
Title: Re: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: westfw on September 17, 2015, 03:43:40 am
There is a lot of stuff in those old magazines that is seldom explained any more; like how a UART works (at the flip-flop level, more or less.)
Title: Re: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: AF6LJ on September 17, 2015, 02:14:45 pm
Quote from: westfw on September 17, 2015, 03:43:40 am
There is a lot of stuff in those old magazines that is seldom explained any more; like how a UART works (at the flip-flop level, more or less.)
I always thought it would be cool to wirewrap together a 16550 using TTL.


Just because.
Title: Re: "four million pages" of broadcast/consumer/hobbyist electronics history
Post by: Richard Crowley on September 17, 2015, 03:47:59 pm
Quote from: AF6LJ on September 17, 2015, 02:14:45 pm
I always thought it would be cool to wirewrap together a 16550 using TTL.
It wasn't that much fun back in the day before they were available as an integrated circuit.
I remember the first time I went to Western Digital to pick up a whole flat of 40-pin WD 1402 chips for our multiplexer project.