8 Jul
2007
8 Jul
'07
2:38 p.m.
e.stiebler wrote:
Try to find somebody with a copy of the 1974
"elector" magazine (uk).
They had a series of articles about a "computer74" which was designed in
'74, and made of 74' series chips. Was a 16 bit thing.
Are you sure about that?
I was under the impression that the UK edition of Elektor started publication
in 1975, and I've got just about every issue from 1977 through 1985 (I'm
missing some from '83 and May '86 through some time in 2001).
In fact, counting backwards from Jan 1977 (Issue 21) suggests that, at 11
issues per year (the Jul/Aug issue is a 'special double-sized issue' - an
age-old Elektor tradition) the first issue published in English would have
been the March 1975 issue, published towards the back end of February 1975.
I kinda like Elektor. You can identify an Elektor project from half a mile
away - the PCB designs have their own unique style. Lots of 45-degree angles,
plenty of flood-fills (why, to save on etchant of course) and filleting where
pads meet tracks (strengthens the tracks a little).
Shame it's such a pain to track down the few volumes I'm missing... (unless
anyone has a set looking for a good home that is 8^) )
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