1965 Allied Catalog

You could build some of the circuits in my copy of "Industrial Transistor Circuits" published the same year, if there are any SCRs in there (lots of SCRs used)

If you hung on to a hundred of those 12AX7s you could be a 12AX7 millionaire nowadays.

What's an "allowance"?

My parents gave me $2 per week.

"Stop fussing around with that pricey 'transistor' nonsense, those things are just a fad and will NEVER catch on."

I could go on...

I'll stop now...

OK, this would be hard to beat...

John :-#)#

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you only wanted the case !!

Ungar soldering iron. Don't know. A clunky 25W piece with a wooden handle was about $4

2N2222A $1.50

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The last Russian made one I bought (Electro-Harmonix brand) form a local component supplier cost A$29.15

.... Phil

Interesting..... In the UK, I was a schoolboy and was building valve amplifiers that went into 'cheap' record players for a local company. That paid for all my hobby bits :)

My parents were pretty plain people who never expected that electronics would take over the world. They just figured that I was a very weird kid, and indulged me.

Yeah well by the time I was four I owned an entire record player factory and I did it all myself and I only had an allowance of fifteen cents a month! And I walked to school uphill in the snow! _Both_ ways!

January 1965 RSI. (Not too many ads show prices, but) TEK sampling 'scopes;

Keithly calibration sources

PAR two phase lockin JB-6 $1,750

There were a lot more ads in the older RSI's.

George H.

$15 anyway

I guess the biggest change is with ICs. 74 series started out at something like $25 per chip, now you could get a cpu for that.

NT

Yeah, a dual opamp costs 10 cents now.

One irony is that now when parts and test equipment are so available, kids are all learning how to code.

I had some cool customers visit yesterday. They make DUV eximer lasers, and one of their advantages is their super-reliable saturating-magnetics power drivers. The lament is that an old guy designed that stuff and then moved on, and there are few youngsters around who could do anything like that.

Real electronics rocks, and is increasingly rare and valuable.

ng like $25 per chip, now you could get a cpu for that.

I find it a weird experience seeing all the arduino projects where for a se nsor they pay several $ for the sensor plus some assorted junk. I guess it' s sort of the modern equivalent of electronics kits that were around decade s ago, put a bunch of bloated assemblies on a baseboard to make a circuit.

NT

Is there an online copy someplace? In 1965 I was at Harvard, purchasing parts like that, and I don't remember them being so expensive.

So, tools have gone UP by a factor of about 100, while components have gone DOWN by a factor of 100 (plain $, not corrected for inflation.) Very interesting!

Jon

Not exactly 100 fold, more like 10x. Tools haven't gone up that much for similar types of tools. I expect the Ungar soldering iron mentioned above was your basic 25 or 40W model commonly called a soldering pencil. Not temp controlled, etc. as the soldering stations are these days. You can get cheap soldering pencils easily under $10 and some around $5. Not sure if they are very safe when that cheap - probably not UL or CSA approved and would be a fire or shock hazard potentially.

John :-#)#

potentially or really?

(pun was intended)

I try to avoid buying anything that isn't approved by at least UL. I've seen enough junk stuff without adding the danger to my life and family.

John :-#)#