| First seen in the mid 1950s, dictating machines were the pinnacle of office automation. In the sales pitch of the period, these machines “co...
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| Look at what’s powered up quasi permanently in any reasonably equipped, not overly microcontroller-biased electronics lab or workshop and it...
| A mixed signal oscilloscope (MSO) combines an oscilloscope with a logic analyser, their readouts appearing on a single screen if desired. Wh...
| This month’s story starts at Elektor Live! on November 26, 2011 and goes back all the way to 1978.
| Not long after WW2 Philips, a leading tube manufacturer in the Netherlands, iin their famous Natuurkundig Laboratorium (‘NatLab’, in English...
| As far as microprocessors are concerned my roots are in the early 1980s when all sorts of ‘hobby systems’ were around based on competing dev...
| The analogue computer we set out to describe in the previous instalment was constructed from separate computation modules for multiplication...
| It’s easy to see why Tek 500 series ‘scopes now stir up nostalgic feelings of 1960s and 1970s ‘college & lab’ days. For one thing, they are...
| USB oscilloscopes are wildly popular, they represent a significant market and since 2005 quite a few have been tested and described in Elekt...
| In the early 1990s, activity in the 23 cm amateur radio band (1250-1300 MHz) soared due to the arrival on the market of wideband RF power am...