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15 thoughts on “1972 pocket electronics book”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Cumpson says:

    I remember reading "Everyday Electronics" magazine. My Mum thought the title was funny, because electronics clearly was not an everyday thing!
    Fast forward to the 2020s and electronics are an every-MINUTE thing!
    Everyday Electronics projects were usually a bit simple. Practical Electronics was one step up in terms of cool projects.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars V12 Mike says:

    I was 10 years old and my dad bought me a subscription to Everyday Electronics for my birthday. We had every issue from the first in 1971 until about 1978.
    The projects were usually a bit too basic to be useful.
    Those magazines and that booklet were binned when we cleared out my dad's house many years later.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Shores says:

    Again, great presentation. My dad had two miniature booklets for his pocket. Everything from electronics info, formulas, wire gauge, plumbing info, almost every bit of handy info a DIY'r to engineer would need and use on a daily basis. It was put out by General Electric in abt 1970. Thanks for the memories,

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Butzi Porsche says:

    A lot of these were freebies used as promotional. You'd order them with your company's contact info on the back to give out in lieu of a business card. I have some from Cascade Machinery (here in Seattle) that fit in my Fluke case and have everything you need. I went by to see if I could buy some and they gave me a box of them because they no longer gave them out.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ludmila Scoles says:

    Good old tropical fish, some still think they sound better

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GPUD μBasE says:

    Thanks Fran. Really beautifully described 🙂

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Howard Klein says:

    Still got my constructors companion. Came on cover of my Everyday Electronics magazine in 1972. I was 14 and info was difficult to find. Great nostalgia looking back.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ted McFadden says:

    An uncle-in-law passed along his collection of Radio Shack's Engineer's Mini-Notebooks by Forrest M. Mims III, sometime in the 90s. They are all early-80s issue, ~1981-1983 IIRC. Some of the part numbers Mr. Mims used are obsolescent (or downright obsolete/unobtanium), but the general concepts presented make them handy reminders. I still keep them at my desk.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Deborah Teramis Christian says:

    Very cool. Thanks so much for the walk-through!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nunyo Bidness says:

    For being the same age that booklet has weathered time much more gracefully than myself

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Julian Sortland says:

    I think Dick Smith in Australia sold them as Tag Strip, as Jaycar does. Their Terminal Board has tags on both sides, mounted via a screw through the insulator, not via a leg. Altronics calls these Terminal Tag Strip.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Flanagan says:

    Way cool! A shout out to our friends in Ireland! I need to visit Ireland, with a last name of "Flanagan", ya think? Thanks Fran.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars noakeswalker says:

    That all seems very familiar and yet very distant at the same time. Thanks Fran.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rebecca Abraham says:

    I remember that booklet – brought back some memories! Glad to see the old OA81 diode and the ‘use-everywhere’ BC109…… The other common transistor in use was the OC71 – where you could scrape the paint off the top of the cylindrical body and use it as a photosensor!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Craig Pennington says:

    Those pocket Electronics booklets are great and should be available today. Lots of goodies in there & common sense writing. Interesting stuff. Especially if you have old electronics (tubes),of which I do & they kick ass. Using them as my home sound theatre system. Thanks Fran & Paul.

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