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1-12-2013 | Reading the Retronics pages in Elektor got me thinking about my 50 years in electronics. I started at age twelve and was lucky to experience...

1-11-2013 | Restoration of a landmark in electro-acoustic measurement technology! As opposed to time consuming mechanical, optical and graphic/mathemati...

1-10-2013 | The story of bringing a vintage tube checker back to life. The instrument came as a set of parts in a box supplied by the greatest electroni...

1-09-2013 | Is it a bright green instrument? No, more like greenish grey. Must be made by Radiometer, Copenhagen then, as that was their favorite (and o...

1-06-2013 | Ever since the earliest days of mathematics and logical thought, people have tried to find ways to simplify the repetitive work involved. Ba...

1-05-2013 | 50-300 VDC plate, 6.3 VAC or 4 VAC filament, –10 VDC to –100 VDC negative grid -- it's all on the 1963 NE-171 Multi-voltage Adjustable Power...

1-04-2013 | The equipment and parts pictured in this articel were accumulated over a long career in electronics, during which the author was tragically...

1-03-2013 | Do you remember back to your youth, when you took your first steps in the world of electronics? For me, and I guess many others, radio was a...

1-11-2012 | Hewlett-Packard’s HP-35 was the first scientific pocket calculator in the world. Suddenly tedious and inaccurate computations using log tabl...

1-10-2012 | Manufactured by UK-based Marconi Instruments, the type TF801D/1 is an RF generator covering frequencies from 10 MHz to 470 MHz. Built at aro...