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2 unusual facts about Popular Electronics


Experimenter Publishing

Radio News became Popular Electronics and the January 1975 issue featured the Altair 8800 computer on the cover; this launched the personal computer revolution.

Julian Hirsch

Hirsch first tested gear for Popular Electronics, then, in October 1961, for Hi-Fi/Stereo Review, which was later renamed Stereo Review.


COSMAC ELF

The COSMAC ELF was an RCA 1802 microprocessor-based computer based on a series of construction articles in Popular Electronics magazine in 1976 and 1977.

Cromemco CYCLOPS

The Cyclops Camera was developed by Terry Walker, Harry Garland, and Roger Melen, and introduced as a hobbyist construction project in the February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.


see also

Altair 8800

-- It was not Bill Gates, Yates designed hardware at MITS, Gates was the software guy from Harvard --> finished the first prototype in October 1974 and shipped it to Popular Electronics in New York via the Railway Express Agency.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

At that time, Dan Meyer and Don Lancaster were among the most prolific authors in Popular Electronics.