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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.
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.
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,
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.
Good old tropical fish, some still think they sound better
Thanks Fran. Really beautifully described 🙂
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.
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.
Very cool. Thanks so much for the walk-through!
For being the same age that booklet has weathered time much more gracefully than myself
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.
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.
That all seems very familiar and yet very distant at the same time. Thanks Fran.
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!
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.