9 Jul
2007
9 Jul
'07
12:22 a.m.
Philip Pemberton schrieb:
e.stiebler wrote:
He probably talks about the German issue of Elektor. This started with 4
issues in 1970, and with 11 issues (i.e. the traditional July/August
double issue) from 1971.
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).
I stopped reading it around 1992 - it too much follwoed the general
trend of filling pages with standard microcontroller crap (often
recycled industry application notes), that required some special circuit
only available at their or associated stores. Having seen the nth PIC
application that basically blinks a LED - what my generation built with
2 transistors, 2 capacitors, 4 resistors - is lame.
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^) )
For German and Dutch
issues, eBay is your friend. Content is almost
equivalent.
--
Holger