Shortwave radio has a charm all its own: part history, part mystery, and a whole lot of tech nostalgia. The...
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We hear a lot about how ham radio isn’t what it used to be. But what was it like? Well,...
Portability has been a goal of a sizable section of the computing world for many decades now. While the obvious...
With so many cheap oscilloscopes out there, the market for old units isn’t what it used to be. But if...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor,...
These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would have been the envy of...
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or...
has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore VIC-20. The core of the machine...
It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop...
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer,...
The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still looks great, but unsurprisingly, the...
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it...
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games they wrote over three decades ago, and...
Nothing can ruin a restoration project faster than broken knobs. Sure, that old “boat anchor” ham rig will work just...
Ever been working on a project and get stuck on one of those last little details? That’s what happened to...
claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a malfunctioning Hallicrafters S-120 shortwave receiver. He...
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail end, in our case —...
Mysterious letters and numbers etched into the wall of a sealed-off, fifth-floor room in the Clayton University Center at Packer Hall are...
Like many of us, had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a video you can watch below, he...
You have an old radio — in the case of , a Stromberg Carlson — and it needs new knobs....
Doing electronics in the 1910s was rather rough, with the radio probably the pinnacle of hi-tech. Despite this, with some...
The germanium point contact diode, and almost every semiconductor device using germanium, is now obsolete. There was a time when...
You have an hour to kill, and you like old communication technology. If you happen to be in Windsor, Connecticut,...
If you read the December 1970 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, you’d be treated to ’s crystal radio build. He called out...
