Elektor Dvd 1980 1989
Fidelia Boldul
I had a go at OCRing the hex dump in order to disassemble the software, but the OCR error rate was so high it would have been quicker to read and type in the values. Even then, the image quality means some characters are hard to read. I ordered a copy of the 1980-1989 Elektor magazines on DVD in the hope that they will be much better quality, enough to extract the hex data.
Popular Electronics was an American magazine published by John August Media, LLC, and hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com. The magazine was started by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in October 1954 for electronics hobbyists and experimenters. It soon became the "World's Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine". In April 1957, Ziff-Davis reported an average net paid circulation of 240,151 copies.[1] Popular Electronics was published until October 1982 when, in November 1982, Ziff-Davis launched a successor magazine, Computers & Electronics. During its last year of publication by Ziff-Davis, Popular Electronics reported an average monthly circulation of 409,344 copies.[2] The title was sold to Gernsback Publications, and their Hands-On Electronics magazine was renamed to Popular Electronics in February 1989, and published until December 1999. The Popular Electronics trademark was then acquired by John August Media, who revived the magazine, the digital edition of which is hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com,[3] along with sister titles, Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Astronomy.
The title Popular Electronics was sold to Gernsback Publications and their Hands-On Electronics magazine was renamed to Popular Electronics in February 1989. This version was published until it was merged with Electronics Now to become Poptronics in January 2000. In late 2002, Gernsback Publications went out of business and the January 2003 Poptronics was the last issue.[30]
The TEC-1 is a single-board kit computer introduced by Talking Electronics in the early 1980s. The design by John Hardy and Ken Stone was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU, had 2K of RAM and 2K of ROM in a default configuration. Later versions used a 4k ROM with two different versions of the monitor software, selectable via a switch. This allowed the early software presented in the magazine to be used with the later version of the TEC-1. It was featured in 1983, in Volume 1, Issue 10 of the Talking Electronics magazine.
Talking Electronics or TE was an Australian electronics magazine from the 1980s aimed at beginners and hobbyists, founded and produced by Colin Mitchell in Cheltenham, Australia. The general magazine lasted 15 official issues, but there were many one-off publications produced in addition to the issue-based magazine. Some of these included the FM Bugs series of books, The Electronics Notebook series, and model railway projects. The first issue was in 1981, with the last issue being #15 in May 1989. Colin Mitchel has still an operational Talking Electronics website and business.
Late 1981 advert for Maplin featuring its two branches [click to see]From the early 1980's Maplin included its shop addresses (both of them!) in its adverts. Using Google Street View I could compare old advertising artwork with today's street scene:
Way to go: 1992 Maplin catalogue advert: 'available from Maplin shops nationwide' [click to see]Altai was a cheap and cheerful brand of Chinese/ Japanese hobbyist parts [click to see]In 1989 Maplin's National Distribution Centre opened up in Wombwell. Buying offices were established in Taiwan (1993) and Hong Kong to source imports and the company was acquired by Cannon Street Investments plc, which had several businesses under its wings including the Altai brand of cheap and cheerful Japanese and Chinese parts familiar to many hobbyists. Cannon Street, later known as Saltire plc, snapped up Maplin Electronics (by then, a plc) in 1994. Maplin was having growing pains and with one eye on the future it sought a partner who had an electronics presence that would not conflict with Maplin's, said Roger Allen, and Saltire fitted the bill.
Founded in 1980, MOON is a Canadian based high-end manufacturer of audio equipment. At the occasion of the 2012 AES, Moon launches its first Pro Audio product : the 3500MP High-end 2-channel reference microphone preamplifier.