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| 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...

| A childhood dream and unachievable to most: A Lego Electronic Train set as it was launched commercially in the sixties. A whistle, and the l...

| With the unstoppable move of electronic test equipment to all-digital/software/simulation and mostly plastic, top-notch gear from the old an...

| Although Elektor Magazine and their Labs have been relatively slow to jump the bandwagon called retro & vintage electronics, and specificall...

| We have been living in the electronic age for well over a century now, since the invention of the triode by Lee de Forest in 1907. Roughly s...

| It’s great fun and a complete journey of discovery to repair and recalibrate vintage electronics with the instruments, ‘standards’ and ‘fixt...

| Today, graphics, artwork, and text we view on paper and on screens can be safely assumed to be of digital origin. That’s not implying the ab...

| 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...

| It is 1983. The microcomputer revolution has swept across the United States and is taking hold in Europe. Demand for expertise is rising rap...

| Just shy of forty years ago, Elektor published two frequency counter project articles in the June 1978 issue. The ‘µP counter’ concept was f...