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1-04-2008 | ‘Formant’ is without doubt one of the biggest names from the Elektor history. The mega project goes back a good thirty years, was forgotten...

1-03-2008 | Dekatron valves were developed in the 50s and lasted right up to the end of 1970. They were used as up/down decade counters in applications...

1-02-2008 | Elektor in 1984 saw a niche for a disco lights controller that was unusual and novel in not being limited to dull, fixed light patterns. In...

1-01-2008 | Although I have never forgotten this blockbuster from the old days I was delighted to find, in a storage locker at the former Elektor premis...

1-12-2007 | Philips Telecommunication Industries in their 1977 product information sheet write that the SXA is a solid-state VHF/UHF personal FM radiote...

1-11-2007 | In 1963, after about two years of administrative preparation, a lot of telexing, white papering and contract tendering, the Dutch PTT offici...

1-10-2007 | A few years ago I rediscovered my father’s set and again was delighted by its performance and simplicity, especially as crystal sets don’t u...

1-09-2007 | NORbits are one of the earliest forms of integrated digital circuits housed in large (1 by 2 inch), 17-pin DIL cases, developed by Philips i...

1-06-2007 | According to the 1960 manual, the 1650-A is a “self-contained impedance measuring system, which includes five bridges for the measurement of...

1-05-2007 | The transverter for the 70 cms band (430-440 MHz) published in two parts in Elektor June and October 1981, is a fine example of a publicatio...