8 Mar
2006
8 Mar
'06
1:18 p.m.
I don't have R-E handy, but "Mac's Radio Service Shop" shows up in the
May 1955 issue of Radio & Television News. ISTR that it was a regular in
the magazine. Also, wasn't Radio & Television News the predecessor of
Radio-Electronics Magazine?
Didn't Radio-Electronics also have a regular
fictional series about the
adventures of a repair-shop guy? This would be back around the time of
C&J.
Cheers,
Chuck
8 Mar
8 Mar
1:46 p.m.
On 3/8/2006 at 10:18 AM Marvin Johnston wrote:
I don't have R-E handy, but "Mac's Radio
Service Shop" shows up in the
May 1955 issue of Radio & Television News. ISTR that it was a regular in
the magazine. Also, wasn't Radio & Television News the predecessor of
Radio-Electronics Magazine?
"Mac's Radio Service Shop" sounds right--and probably later became
something like "Mac's Service Shop". It's curious that I don't
remember
any of the story lines from that series, but can recall several from the
Popular Electronics C&J series.
Does any contemporary electronics/computer magazine offer a monthly fiction
series? I don't count the "Dr. Ecco" puzzlers or the "Verity
Stob"
satires. In the old days, the stories really did add a sense of "this is
an adventure" to the subject material.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:57 p.m.
They also added a sense of "this is a boatload of corn" ;-)
I read through a few of the old Radio & Television News mags
just a couple of weeks ago. It was primarily geared toward
the repair trade, which is interesting to me since I deal in
TV repair parts. I've been considering scanning some of the
old ads and using them on my Web site just for fun (pretty
cool to see Kester solder advertised in the '50s since I
sell the stuff today).
But "Mac's Repair Shop" has to be one of THE corniest
columns ever written. Hopefully anyone considering
writing a modern-day column has better literary skills . . .
Glen
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Chuck Guzis wrote:
In the old days, the stories really did add a sense of
"this is
an adventure" to the subject material.
Cheers,
Chuck
8:06 p.m.
On 3/8/2006 at 6:57 PM Glen Goodwin wrote:
But "Mac's Repair Shop" has to be one of
THE corniest
columns ever written. Hopefully anyone considering
writing a modern-day column has better literary skills . . .
That probably explains why I don't recall any of the "Mac" stories--just
that there was such a column.
Cheers,
Chuck
9:25 p.m.
Marvin Johnston wrote:
Also, wasn't Radio & Television News the predecessor of
Radio-Electronics Magazine?
IIRC:
- Hugo Gernsback started publishing "Radio News" in the 1920s or 30s,
- "Radio News" became "Radio & Television News" around the late
40s,
- "Radio & Television News" became "Radio Electronics" around
the late 50s
or early 60s
(I could find the transition dates but don't have them at hand)
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