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1-07-2014 | The HP-71B handheld computer caused something of a stir when Hewlett-Packard released it on February 1, 1984, some thirty years ago, with a...

1-06-2014 | Back in 1986 at the crowded Elektor Electronics laboratory, somebody approved the idea proposed by a young Dutch BSc. graduate of Electronic...

1-04-2014 | In the mid 1960's I was a teenager and getting interested in electronics. I had just read about rebuilding old radio receivers (Popular Elec...

1-03-2014 | The story of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation began back in 1939, when William Hewlett used a tungsten filament lamp in a vacuum tube Wien Br...

1-01-2014 | The previous months we’ve been discussing equipment in the complex, bizarre, rare or expensive categories (tick as applicable—multiple optio...

10-12-2013 | The electronics student of today was probably born somewhere in the mid-nineties of the last century. That may sound like a long time ago, b...

10-12-2013 | Quite unintentionally a one-page story on an old Heathkit tube tester in the December 2004 edition of Elektor magazine spawned dozens of ‘Re...

10-12-2013 | If you love boatanchors, 807s, e-debris, 2N3055s, old technology, Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, esoteric components from the distant past, or...

10-12-2013 | Do you love boatanchors, 807s, e-debris, 2N3055s, classic technology, Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, esoteric components from the distant past,...

1-12-2013 | The theory behind insulation and dielectric testing is that if the insulation system in the equipment under test can withstand a deliberate...