Who remembers these magazines from yesteryear?

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Everyday_Electronics.htm

some if not most of the circuits are still relevant today.

what did you build?

 

Not that particular magazine but I've used the World Radio History site for many years. Great resource site!

 

Not that particular magazine but I've used the World Radio History site for many years. Great resource site!

Thanks for the heads up.

 

Hello,

The archive has also a lot of magazines in all kind of languages:
https://archive.org/details/electronicsmagazines

Bertus

 

Hello,

An other vintage site has a lot of heathkit manuals and some other magazines and documents:
https://www.vintage-radio.info/

Bertus

 

Radio Shack Catalogs back to 1939!
when I want to cry me a river

 

I want to cry me a river

Remember when the walls were covered with the component and hardware packs hanging on hooks?

 

UK edition, remember it well.
Built a few projects.

 

Remember when the walls were covered with the component and hardware packs hanging on hooks?

Yeah...kinda miss those days

Everything is available online these days including extortionate shipping fees, i miss The convenience of radioshack and frys electronics.

 

Hello,

Yes, a lot of electronics stores have gone over the years.
I had two in the naberhood and both are gone now.
In holland radioshack was called tandy.
After some time they changed to selling phones only.
A couple of years later they where gone.

Now the only option is buying online.

Bertus

 

Yeah...kinda miss those days

Everything is available online these days including extortionate shipping fees, i miss The convenience of radioshack and frys electronics.

I find Digikey fairly reasonable at CAN$8. for shipping includes customs cleaance to Canada.
Right now I would spend that in Gas to pick it up locally!!

 

Right now I would spend that in Gas to pick it up locally!!

Apologies to the world for the turmoil trump has brought forth to the entire world.

 

In holland radioshack was called tandy.

They started out as Tandy Leather supplying leather craft kits, leatherworking tools, and raw supplies to hobbyist and crafts folks. The name was still being used when they came out with their TRS computers, Tandy Radio Shack.

The World Radio History site has a vast number of books as well dealing with both consumer and commercial tube radios and early pre-solid-state electronics design. I think their repository has (if not all) almost all of the ARRLs (American Radio Relay League) yearly handbooks full of Amateur Radio articles and design features going back to its founding in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim.

I see they are now selling collections on CDs there now. There is also a guy on eBay selling all of HealthKit's catalogs and every manual for everything they sold all on one CD for cheaper than you can buy a single reprint of the manuals or a used one. If you ever get into rebuilding some of their gear, it's a must have. Another fellow there also sells high quality color reprints of manuals bound with high quality heavier weight paper and acrylic front and back sheets that is "multi-ring" bound so than you can turn the pages completely around to the back and the manual lies flat on the table. Much easier to use than the cheap paper bound manual from the maker and less expensive as well. He will also custom print if he doesn't have it in stock if he can source the manual to copy.

 

My copy of the ARRL Handbook was well-worn in my teens, learning electronics.

 

Hello,

In the dlarc archive a lot of hamradio stuff can be found:
https://archive.org/details/dlarc
In that archive there are a lot of arrl and rsgb documents:
https://archive.org/details/dlarc?tab=collection&query=arrl&and[]=mediatype:"texts"
https://archive.org/details/dlarc?tab=collection&query=rsgb&and[]=mediatype:"texts"

Bertus

 

https://archive.org/details/dlarc

I hate to say it, but they have terrible quality copies. Most have no PDF indexing and dark colored prints that take forever to load... And they are just that, image prints and not text, so you cannot PDF work with them as text. But they do have the books at least. I guess they lack the budgeting funds to make great clear text copies and do what they can with what they have.