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1-09-2012 | Electrical muscle stimulation machines offer relief from aches and pains, muscle tension, neuralgia and lots of other miscellaneous ailments...

1-06-2012 | This Dev kit was real state of the art stuff in 1977, but you had to be fairly dedicated to do much with it. There was no assembler or compi...

1-05-2012 | Recently I dusted off my old logic analyser as part of a major housecleaning exercise. The instrument dates from my time as a student in the...

1-04-2012 | First seen in the mid 1950s, dictating machines were the pinnacle of office automation. In the sales pitch of the period, these machines “co...

1-03-2012 | Look at what’s powered up quasi permanently in any reasonably equipped, not overly microcontroller-biased electronics lab or workshop and it...

1-02-2012 | This month’s story starts at Elektor Live! on November 26, 2011 and goes back all the way to 1978. 

1-01-2012 | Not long after WW2 Philips, a leading tube manufacturer in the Netherlands, iin their famous Natuurkundig Laboratorium (‘NatLab’, in English...

1-12-2011 | 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...

1-11-2011 | After the XXL instalments with ditto texts and theory published the previous two months, Retronics relaxes for a bit with a tube sightseeing...

1-09-2011 | Analogue computers provide actual rather than virtual representations of model systems. They are powerful and engaging computing machines th...