Popular Electronics Magazine Archive

[Natural Sound]

Popular Electronics magazine made a lasting impression on me as a kid. I stumbled across an archive of the magazine from 1954 to 1982. Each issue is available as a downloadable PDF file so you can view them on the go. I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as I am.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm

NOTE: If you go to the "Home" page there are tons of other electronics and radio archives to keep you busy for a long time. This is a monster treasure trove of information.

 

[EarWorm]

Thanks!

 

[Paul Joppa]

Wow - thanks a lot! This was the inspiration of my youth.

I had fooled around with radios earlier, but my first hifi construction was the single-ended(!) transistor amp, p.51 Feb 1959; I probably built it in 60 or 61 when I was 13 or 14 years old. We were living in a furnished rental house that included a huge 15" hifi speaker; I had been given an assembled but non-working Heathkit tuner that a friend of my dad's had given up on. I fixed the tuner (a single bad solder joint - sound familiar, anyone?) and all I needed was an amp. Sounded fabulous, and made me an audiophile.