EEVblog #1194 - 1985 Electronics

Dave uncovered the first edition of Australian Electronics Monthly magazine from July 1985, by Roger Harrison, and featuring a classic David Tilbrook MOSFET amplifier design, vintage computer, vintage analog scopes and more.

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[gelecopter]

Here in Russia we have "Radio (Радио)" magazine. They runs from 1924 to present days, publishing ham Radio related stuff and DIY electronics projects.
Hats up to them for surviving 1991-1993, 1998 and 2008.... BTW they have FTP server and you can download all their past issues. But they in russian language lol.
360p takes me back to 80s too. +1 for the atmosphere.

[kenseastrand]

I was in high school in the 80s (class of 87) and had been into electronics since I was like 8, but our high school library had stopped receiving electronics magazines like a few years before I got there, but they had all of the old copies of Popular Electronics on micro film, so I would sit there and read through them and if there was a project that I wanted to build or an article, etc. the AV tech Mr. Benett (can't believe I still remember his name) would print them out for me for 5 cents (American) per page. that brought back some great memories, Thanks Dave!

[whatthefunction]

If we could get rid of the internet we could have good magazine's again

[pmkleinp]

Yep HF weather fax still exists to this day.

[youian]

I built the listening post and programmed a BBC micro to display satellite weather images received with an FRG-7. Thanks Dave!

[mUbase]

Ah beautiful. I love the old magazines. I have copies of ETI, Elektor and Electronics and Musician Monthly from the early / Mid 80's that I "rescued" from the Uni I was at. Sadly I could've saved another 200 or so but they went without my knowledge. What a great Mag Dave!! Please do some more!! :) I've also still got my Microprofessor (in your words, none of that fancy pants 64 bit rubbish.. all Z80 goodness inside this baby.. :) ) Thanks again.!!

[porthos]

Wow...what a flashback. I worked for Applied Technology in1977-79 when they were in Hunter St. in Hornsby. I remember one of the problems we were fixing was key bounce. Press the key once and get 2 or 3 on the screen. Nearly 15 years later I got married and found out that my wife worked at Microbee. Small world. Thanks again.

[KostasAlbanidis]

Why don't you do a video Dave with all the articles you ever published? It would be awesome :)

[imgertberg]

In The Netherlandswe have had the Elektuur, came out eleven times a year with the June/Jule edition in one book and that one contained a lot of small DIY electronic projects, complete with pcb layouts. These months was the national holidays. The other 10 months the editions we're almost the same as the Australian version you are showing.

[BradsGuitarGarage]

Yep, built the Tom Moffat radiofax when I was around 10YO. Very sad when he passed. I used to love reading Moffat's Madhouse!

[martinda]

Ha ha...I wanted to read the Mosfet article...360p, no way. I wondered why I hadn't automatically set to HD!

[ms_enj]

I had no idea that Tom Moffat had passed away. I absolutely loved his column in EA, back in the late 90s when I did my apprenticeship... He had an exceptionally witty way with words that I very much enjoyed reading.

Seeing the old Jaycar logo and some of the other Aussie electronics icons from the past brings back a lot of memories of spending my pocket money on EA, ETI, and Silicon Chip when I started high school as a young lass... No wonder everyone thought I was a nerd. 😂

[jeffreyhebert]

I have a suggestion...once a week/month/yearly...have a nostalgic episode..glancing for items through the old magazines and possibly showing it.. I'm sure Mr Jones you probably have some of the items advertised in your older inventory...just love retro shows... cheers and have a great day Sir

[kriz]

Yes i went to school with Corey Harrison and Jamie was his older brother, Roger was a pretty cool dad.

[nob]

Yep.. Lived It & Loved It. Thanks for the memory Dave.!!!!

[Joetechlincolns]

I have a KIKUSUI COS5020. It needs all the switches and pots cleaned but works ok for what I use it for. I think I was born 25 years too late (1979). Thanks for sharing Dave.

[_hackwell]

In France we had Elecktorand radio plans. We were all after stoboscopes and high (?) power amplifiers to crank uo dire straits full blast

[qwertyasdf]

13:26 My grandfather was a meteorologist and HAM. As a child in the 90's I used to watch the weather map appear on the screen of his 286 computer. Dot by dot, line by line.
I assume that was the short wave weather report you speak of.

[povicollege]

Great to see this first edition. Thanks Dave!!!!

[KeanM]

Interesting to hear mention of Robert Fitzell Acoustics - my wife worked there long ago (although well after this magazine) . Mind you she also worked at Keycorp, possibly around the same time Dave was there. Don't remember this magazine at all, but I did see an ad for my first scope - the wonderful $250 5MHz model.