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David L. Jones
- Jan 1, 1970
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Have any former contributors to EA received a rather mysterious cheque
from the Federal Publishing Company recently?
Dave.
from the Federal Publishing Company recently?
Dave.
Have any former contributors to EA received a rather mysterious cheque
from the Federal Publishing Company recently?
Dave.
Have any former contributors to EA received a rather mysterious cheque
from the Federal Publishing Company recently?
"David L. Jones"
** Don't tell me it could be long delayed conscience money for all the
insulting nonsense that went on after even the very beat contributions were
published ??
Or that abominable puke called " EAT " ???
Yes, didn't they just *wreck* that mag!
IMHO a very good read was Roger Harrison's Australian Electronics
Monthly.
He was ex EA ...
So was Jim Rowe, who went on to work for Dick Smiths
Phil said:"Gingre"
** EA mag changed to EAT because the publisher demanded that change.
** Shame how he was in the habit of not paying contributors.
I'll second that. AND also the habit of not returning contributor's
prototypes.
Phil said:"swanny"
** LOL !
EA magazine returned my prototype of the Low Distortion Oscillator ( EA
Feb / Mar 89) badly burned and covered inside and out with black soot in
April 1989 - after the * BIG * fire at Federal Publishing in Alexandria.
Apparently, the staff kitchen went up in flames in the wee hours and damn
near took the whole building with it.
EA lost most of their archive of magazines - like RTV&H .
However in my case, Jim made sure I got an additional payment to cover the
loss.
I salvaged the parts that were still OK, cleaned them up as good a possible
and fitted the lot, plus many new parts, into a new instrument case some
years back.
It is now my main workbench oscillator.
....... Phil
Is that the oscillator with the RA53 thermistor in it?
I'll second that. AND also the habit of not returning contributor's prototypes.
Phil said:"swanny"
** Lotsa oscillators use one of them.
My one used two NE5532s wired as all pass filters plus a NE5534 wired as a
Schmitt trigger for square wave.
It also used four diodes in an optional, instant settling, amplitude
stabilisation network.
....... Phil
Just my luck that after killfiling Phil for his incessant foulmouthed
rantings at anyone who dared to disagree with him, I missed his informative
post (but saw it repeated here). I defer to his more detailed knowledge but
I daresay he agrees with my first concurrence that EA got ruined briefly
before expiring (no doubt assisted greatly by the rejig).
I'm sure that I saw Roger interviewed on The Investigators or a similar
program many years ago, in trouble for doing something like that again.
Anyone remember the details?
Roger came across with all the panache of a slinking dingo caught in the
headlights .....
EA slowly died over quite a few years, so it was far from "briefly
before expiring". This was commented on in this group many times
during the course of it all.
Hard to pin down when the demise actually started, but a lot of people
seem to think it was when the first DVD product review made front
cover news. If memory serves me correctly it had started during the
reign of Jim Rowe at the insistence of the publishers.
Now, if I had my EA DVD PDF collection to hand (nudge, nudge SC) I'd
be able to get a fair date for it all instead of having to go into my
roof and break into the dusty archives...
Dave.
It would have been around 1999-2000, I remember that review.
I would say without doubt that converting to EAT killed it faster than
anything else could.
Relatively speaking, a couple of product reviews in each issue, made
little difference, as the mag still had plenty of substance to it.
OK, I have an older one I think, maybe 1986. It's just about falling out
of its
cracked zippy box and I was about to put it into a more durable instrument
case
for use on the bench. Is there a reference or circuit available for yours?
It
sounds a bit more refined and might be a better one to build for the
bench.
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