| The things likely to strike any reader or potential buyer of this book are (1) the extremely long title and (2) the term ‘Hollow State’. For...
All items tagged with Philips and Retronics (16)
| Just because it’s so stable and reliable in this day and age, the AC voltage on the power outlets in our electronics workspaces is often tak...
| A while ago I picked up a second-hand Philips system multimeter on Marktplaats (the Dutch equivalent of eBay) with a minor defect for next t...
| Not long after WW2 Philips, a leading tube manufacturer in the Netherlands, iin their famous Natuurkundig Laboratorium (‘NatLab’, in English...
| To allow glow discharge valves to be operated directly by low-voltage transistor circuits, a pair of researchers at the Philips Research Lab...
| Nothing, zilch, nada from Google on this bright yellow, portable, NBFM 70 MHz receiver/transmitter from Philips duly labelled “Fabr. Nr. LO ...
| Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Elektor TV Games Computer (TVGC), which first appeared in the April 1979 issue of Elekt...
| A previous instalment of Retronics discussing the ‘Dekatron’ decimal counter valve [1] having aroused my attention through feedback publishe...
| Philips Telecommunication Industries in their 1977 product information sheet write that the SXA is a solid-state VHF/UHF personal FM radiote...
| In 1963, after about two years of administrative preparation, a lot of telexing, white papering and contract tendering, the Dutch PTT offici...