Thread by @TubeTimeUS

let's read another electronics magazine, this one is from 1969.

here's a machine to measure phase angle. looks quite simple and easy to use. 😂

this company always has the weirdest ads

think i've found the new surprised Pikachu meme. 😮

oh look a tiny 12-bit ADC! it's faster too!

Fairchild used to make test equipment with Nixie tubes. 😍

nice article on ROM chips which were brand new! the Motorola chip mentioned could store 16 bytes. yup, that's it!

product comparisons of "small" computers. these typically filled a cabinet instead of a room.

huh, they solved only one of this country's two problems

CTS is still around and still sells these, although the package is slightly different now

this "freon" sounds like useful stuff. DuPont says it's just fine to vent it into the atmosphere

OMG it's the Honeywell kitchen computer! wonder what colors it came in.

is it a joke? is it a prediction that came true? nobody knows.

back when the internet had only 1600 tubes

i remember seeing cool-amp ads in electronics magazines in the 90's exactly like this one.

i...words fail me... 🤦‍♂️

ok on to the next issue. here they simulated 50 years of aging and i must say, based on my experience with old electronics junk, they nailed it.

let's see
☑️ has Nixie tubes
☑️ avocado green
☑️ backlit latching pushbuttons
yep, too good to be true

woah, 16 bytes of RAM?! only $100? how did they do that? they somehow crammed 16 bits in each of the 8 die on this hybrid package! granted, 35ns was insanely fast.

🖐️THEG ???

🖐️GREATFAIRC 🖐️

🖐️HILDPOWER 🖐️

GRAB 🤜 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️✊
that campaign must have cost some money.

despite the rather horrifying example of casual sexism in the op-amp ad, change was definitely in the air.

wat

neat chart showing speed vs power dissipation for digital logic. a bunch of chip manufacturers you don't see anymore.

huh, it's an op-amp in a package usually used for quartz oscillators.

early ASCII computer terminal.

oh look it's the first digital potentiometer

Custom Wound Bobbins - straight outta Compton.

yeah? well MY insulators are made out of LAVA 🔥

wow, these Keystone battery holders haven't changed at all in 50 years!

OMG it's an IEE ad with nemo tubes and rear projection displays! 😍

lol

love the cutaway view!

back when simulating a circuit required a supercomputer!

when cable ties were brand new! what did they use before? string.