All items tagged with Retronics and Philips (16)

| The things likely to strike any reader or potential buyer of this book are (1) the extremely long title and (2) the term ‘Hollow State’. For...

| Just because it’s so stable and reliable in this day and age, the AC voltage on the power outlets in our electronics workspaces is often tak...

| A while ago I picked up a second-hand Philips system multimeter on Marktplaats (the Dutch equivalent of eBay) with a minor defect for next t...

| Not long after WW2 Philips, a leading tube manufacturer in the Netherlands, iin their famous Natuurkundig Laboratorium (‘NatLab’, in English...

| To allow glow discharge valves to be operated directly by low-voltage transistor circuits, a pair of researchers at the Philips Research Lab...

| Nothing, zilch, nada from Google on this bright yellow, portable, NBFM 70 MHz receiver/transmitter from Philips duly labelled “Fabr. Nr. LO ...

| Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Elektor TV Games Computer (TVGC), which first appeared in the April 1979 issue of Elekt...

| A previous instalment of Retronics discussing the ‘Dekatron’ decimal counter valve [1] having aroused my attention through feedback publishe...

| Philips Telecommunication Industries in their 1977 product information sheet write that the SXA is a solid-state VHF/UHF personal FM radiote...

| In 1963, after about two years of administrative preparation, a lot of telexing, white papering and contract tendering, the Dutch PTT offici...