Hi I'm in the old Eevblog lab. Please forgive the audio. Yes, it is completely empty. Yeah, this used to be the old lab apart from an old Bank apart and a couple of magazines.

I Was just clearing out the cupboard here and I found the last ever edition of the world's longest-running technical publication or at least the world's longest-running Electronics magazine, Electronics Today and it went under various names which would go into, but this was the very last issue in December January 2001 but technically it went a bit longer, but it changed its name to Eat I'm not kidding EA Today it was called Eat and it was called Eat Something and Die by many of the industry. anyway. I Thought we'd have a look at this. not just this one, but the history of Electronics Australia Magazine Please forgive the crudity of this video.

I do have an entire collection of electronics Australian magazine down in dating back to the 1950s down in my bunker, but I just had some here I Thought we'd take a look at now. The editor at the time of this change was I Graham Cuddly and change. It's in our nature, blah blah blah EA is about to change As you know, EA has always been, hasn't always been EA We started off 79 years ago in 1922 as Wireless weekly so in 1939 they changed a radio T radio and hobbies and then in 1955 they changed again to what's called our TV and haechul radio, television and hobbies which was a mouthful and then in 1965. no yes, sorry 1955 they changed our TV in H 1965 they changed to Electronics Australia which is the title it was under until well they renamed it EA Like this.

but anyway is hoping that we'd change. He's worried that people wouldn't change. You can read it for yourself and no they didn't. People did not like the change, they hadn't.

A lot of people will say EA died well before this and we'll take a look at that. but this was the official in December January 2001 and basically everyone unsubscribed. There was a mass exodus. Their phone was ringing off the hook because you got to remember people.

Still, people still didn't have email back then so they'll call it up, canceling their subscriptions and eat. or EA Today lasted another six issues or something like that. I don't know I had some somewhere, but and then it just folded. So that was the end of the longest running technical publication, the longest running in electronics magazine in the world.

And as you can see, gear up your life. Like it said, everything, people didn't even need to look at the next edition to know what it was going to be like. So let's actually just go back, shall we? And yeah, you could see it coming like it was, but let's go back, shall we? I Found some old ones here as well I think these are duplicates from my set down here, but this was our TV and H2 and six. Fantastic! And you know I did look I won't go through but like there's never Williams there he is legend and you know and it was a great publication.

Our TV NHC ago. Ah beautiful and it was all you know. It was still like radio and you know there were still lots of stuff like that but fantastic classical reviews. So they reviewed like classical music and stuff like that.

But and then it changed. This is not only edition. don't know if it's the first. Asian Anyway, early edition of Electronics Australia magazine and check out the cover.

Can you imagine putting two women in the kitchen on the front cover? a technical magazine today? Are there being S JW Meltdown and Nuclear Meltdown Italy Incredible. Anyway, so yes. Electronics Australian magazine with its beautiful any arm look I can't Five wiring diagrams point-to-point wiring diagrams fantastic I could spend all day but electronics Australia magazine back in the day beautiful is this Jim Bro is Jim wrote playing an organ. Do you of course the editor for 30 years or something a long, long time and look at the glamour.

look at the Glamour 1977 Fantastic. But let's take a look at probably the heyday of electronics Australia was like the mid 90s. what do we got here? Yep, mid 90s. So this is another classic front cover, but this is went like 164 page digest issue.

It was thick like I think it might have hit 200 pages at one stage and I got mine. A lot of my projects published in the 90s there's Jim Wright Jim Groth sorry Jim and they had tons of you know they had features then lots of projects and technical staff, professional electronics columns and comments departments and all sorts of stuff. It was absolutely it was probably the 90s, you know, early to midnight he was was probably the heyday of a Pc programmer for 68 7705 microcomputers. Fantastic! who wrote that one? sorry I've got a look myself David Russell and Paul Williams mmm Anyway, yeah, that was probably the hey date.

like really thick like you know there was. every issue just seemed to get thicker and thicker at the time I know sorry that one's not. That includes the catalog I think ah I thought there was a thick one. Anyway, some of them were ridiculously thick.

That was. the electronic says Jack O'donnell there is still running it, no tracks. they still sell parts everything like that. Anyway, it was like really thick in the mid to late 90s.

Something like that. And let's go to the late nineties shall we? January 99 Up Hangout? Yep. January 1999. You can sort of probably start to see it like you know, we still got featuring projects on the front cover and all that sort of stuff.

busy and I still projects of the feature world of electronics, columns and comments departments. but it's a bit thinner than what it used to be. You know we're talking like just under a hundred pages, something like that. So and then yeah, like home theater stuff like this.

that stuff's always kind of been there, but you know it just got a little bit more and more towards the end of. you know, the end of the millennium there? 99 there it is Sleepless in Seattle and yeah, gets in my way back to projects. Yeah, it gets more gadgety. yeah.

big screen projection TVs Fantastic. Back to but you can see. yeah. cool blue for you.

When blue LEDs were all the rage and everything was blue and then it sort of started to get a little bit. Did they add not they? Yeah, cuz it used to include it because they might like merge with ETR They took over Eletronics today International And yeah, you can see it's getting a bit bit more glam. Look at this January 2000 So this was the start of the new millennium, right? So yeah, you can kind of see where this was going. so by then everyone went.

Yeah, yeah, just really wasn't. you know it wasn't really really the OD a gram cattle. II had started becoming the editor, but in Graham's defense, he did actually email me quite a few years ago cuz I was one of the ones along with many others back before the Eevblog forum there was the Oz Electronics Usenet group and it was still going and there was. You know everyone was complaining about electronics Australia Back then I was one of the big I think what? my web site actually had a page devoted to it and stuff like that and grai I'm actually emailed me like probably I don't know Five or eight years ago a sudden and said hey, you know look I did I really like to tell a story of what happened there? It wasn't my fault really and I yeah I suspect but he never really followed up on that.

So yeah I don't think it was necessarily him for his fault, it was coming from the publishers and then Jim Rose stepped aside Jim row was still there Jemison Road there he is. but yeah he became a contributor in it and a Higgy Oh Jim could see the writing on the wall and he just handed over to Graham and then I think the the publishing pressure from the publishing house. they just wanted more numbers and they wanted to be like a Glamour magazine. So we're at March 2000 and what are we got here? May Here we go.

Boom! Towards the end of EA Electronics Australia's space mo. You know the interesting stuff like space I don't mind. but yeah, like the Xbox and stuff like that, it's just who's the Bose Oh God groan. you know, size matters.

Size matters. I'm still running a hundred pages and they relegated the technical projects towards the end and no hang on index September to that. What? What's going on There reviews, features and like. Anyway, they sort of relegated the technical stuff towards the back of the magazine back then and so the first? What you know? Tom Moffatt Sadly, not with us anymore and Moffets Madhouse.

Great column. Anyway, yeah, they just started to push stuff back and back and you could see it going and it's just like yeah, it was gone ski until we ended up with basically at the end of 2000 only took a pretty much a year for it to go downhill. and then they announced the change. So that's that's April 2000 and this is December 2000.

And yep, we're about to change coming up. And then that was the end of that. That's all she wrote. And that was the sad end to electronics.

The venerable Electronics Australian magazine. So it lasted until 2000, but probably the 90s late 80s, probably the late eighties? we're it. But it was still going strong mid to late 90s. it was still going fantastic.

but they have it. I'm the Electronics Australian magazine it said. Longest-running publication in the world. from Wireless Weekly through the radio and hobbies in there Radio TV and hobbies and then electronics Australia for like 35 years or something and then it was all over.

Oh well, nothing lasts forever. So I hope you enjoyed that. Look back through electronics and straight a magazine and where's that? Yeah, where's the set? oh I don't know. yeah, it's Gonski Electronics Australia Magazine Yeah, let us know your memories of EI in the or Oh yeah in the comments down below.

I think there was much overseas readership like it would have been very small. It was predominately here in Australia I think at the peak it was like I think Leo I think Leo Simpson Editor of a Silicon Chip magazine told me that the poet like I think was around fifty eighty thousand or something. You know it was. It was quite large and its peak circulation that was I think almost exclusively.

Australia Really I'm not sure if they really exported it much. Let us know in the comments down below. if you actually got this, you are overseas and you read electronics Australia magazine was in your local newsagent as we call them here as I learnt there's no such thing as really the newsagent as we know them in Australia in the US and other places or the other countries. but in the U.s.

there's not apparently so let us know. But can you imagine like some of these front covers like a silicon chip did? a front cover like these these days of the outrage would be enormous anyway. I Hope you liked the video. Catch you next time.