Hi take your mind back to 1985. In fact, almost to the day that Back to the Future was released July 1985 and look what? I Found in my cupboard the first ever edition of the Australian Electronics Monthly. Excitement Electronics. Fantastic! There it is.

First great issue of Volume 1 number 1. Ah, with this a new fancy pantsy glue binding. know that staple rubbish that we had at the time now and in the mid 80s in Australia that was you could argue that was the heyday of electronics magazines even though I said like an electronics Australia was kind of bigger I think in the late like I got it like its thickest. but in the mid to late 80s we had no less than 5 electronics magazines here.

In Australia we had Electronics Today International, We had Electronics Australia we had the Australian Electronics Monthly start up and oh what will go into this and then we had our silicon Chips start up in 1987 and of course we had Talking Electronics and I've done like a whole I think it was a five-part interview series with Colin Mitchell from Talking Electronics and I'll link that in at the end and that's absolutely a must watch. You have to watch that. But I thought we just take a look at the first ever edition of Australian all these chunks monthly so this could take a while now. this was started by Roger Harrison there is Roger and this was the first ever one and also an David Tobruk who is also a famous ETI designer.

famous for lots of like audio amplifier designs and stuff like that I don't know where David is these days moving Rogers are still kicking around. He's still a him. He has changed his ham callsign I believe it's now our H instead of TB So there you go: I'm Roger rh4 Roger Harrison Of course I'm the famous electronics guy Henny Founded Australian Electronics Monthly and we can read here. welcome the Australian, never smile and later another electronics magazine.

You bet why not there? We're here to put some excitement back into your interest and interest back into your hobby. What into your interest, into your interest, interest back into your hobby and some enthusiasm back into the industry because I guess Roger Figured that there wasn't enough enthusiasm at the time. We have a host of our ideas for articles, projects, and features, but we couldn't fit them in this first issue. We're confident though.

you'll like what you see and you'll did yeah, subscribe and all that surf. Every birth is accompanied by a little pain and a lot of joy Has been no different. Like to think of great many people, all that sort of stuff. It spells competition.

so I believe IEM as it was known lasted I Think it well. Roger Harrison finished up with them in 89 I believe So I'm not sure if the magazine folded in 89, but yeah, it wasn't. It didn't last all that long Australian Electronics Monthly. But hands up.

If you remember, let's go back, Shall we build the listening post? Micro-b was still big at the time via tell, scanner, antenna to build components and codes explain 60 watt MOSFET amp and hi-fi of course. Yep. still at high fire back in the day and am straight computer review daddy. mmm for 50 bucks Oh beats triggered be triggered strobe.

Jeez, that's a lot for one issue. Really like for the first inaugural issue so hats off! Yeah! so Roger Harrison jumped ship from Us Electrics Today International along with David I believe and they started a AEM Bond. Well look at this mid 1985 Tricky Dick Smith was still selling for two and a half grand a CPM computer CPM plus with a hundred and twenty eight K of RAM the Bond will hands up if you use the Bond well like you've got to remember the original PC IBM PC came out in 81 and the eight he had been released by then I know the XT had been released by them. not sure in the 80 came out but east look that was still marketing selling CPM computers CPM couldn't have lasted much longer after that Shirley please let us know we know when really CPM was like was was dead Anyway, look at this index.

Nice. Let's go a varietal of course the Australian Micro Be computer. Absolute classic And it's not the computer in a book, it's the set the two iconic I can't remember now. it's killing me anyway.

Oh and he'll designer of the Micro Be computer start out as a kit computer which they first advertised in which computer magazine was and I had it and I sold the the Edition that was in the micro. B Fanboys are crazy I sold that for like a hundred bucks or something for that one issue of your computer magazine. That's what it was, your computer. Anyway, the Micro B start out as a kit a very successful Australian computer and unfortunately, yeah, by like now it was sort of starting to mid-80s It was starting to die out because Pcs were just taking over.

Amstrad Who remembers the Amstrad CPC 664 with the floppy drive built into it? the pop-up floppy drive I still lost after that thing that was amazing. 750 Ozzie Barks there you go Stephen Strobel good on you Steve So started out with news and things like that: Jake Our announcement: they've moved again. Fantastic! They moved a few times. half a billion chips a year and AH look at these Aaron Aaron brand scopes.

These were actually I believe these were rebranded Hung-chang Scopes. Hands up. If you remember the Hung-chang grand scopes though, well like one of the first where they the first like sort of like a cheap asian clone and log scopes and they actually I believe hunch and copied the Phillips model. at the time they stole a lot of stole and copied whatever a lot of tech from the Phillips Scopes but these were very popular and then I think Aaron and maybe they just rebadge the hung Chang's I don't know, but they were.

They have really sharp corners on them from memory. they had like an aluminium strips on them and they had a really sharp okay scopes. them are very popular in schools and colleges here in Australia. So look at this using the modern Oscilloscope good on your Roger and George Smith using a fill and speak of the devil, the Phillips Rpm 33 32 67 hands up anyone still using one.

and the modern scope I mean it is a jewel tribase does have the jewel time base on it. Look at that fancy pantsy. So yeah, they're just telling you all about modern scopes. This one doesn't have an 8 even have a readout.

It's not even a readout scope so not that modern. I guess anyway. I Handheld LCD DMM Three and a half digit for less than 50 bucks. Can you believe it? 4975 Unbelievable.

Look at that. Bobby Dazzler Oh, it's a parameters brand. Yes. And of course they copied the fluke with the side and buttons and everything.

Yep, classic. but 50 bucks you go. that was half a percent. That was huge back in the day.

Unbelievable. Mitsubishi MSX are the MSX Of course was the Microsoft extended basic MSX that just died out I don't think MSX lasts long. that was sort of Microsoft and the Japanese manufacturers trying to standardize on like a version of basic and everything and they're just yeah. it just didn't work out.

Anyway, we continue with the modern oscilloscope. Look at this fantastic I still sell on analogue Vaughn's beauty. What models that bill as in Bell Telephone Percy show Consumer Electronics Show B&W speakers Wow receiver from node of course. audio was still big back in the day.

You know audio amplifiers as I said David Tobruk Famous Designer of Audio apps now commish's RX 505 am Hi-fi review Terrific. Nice little you know, exploded diagram of the tape mechanism. That's nice. not like that.

Ah, performance. Look at this. they've obviously got Robert Fitzell Acoustics Proprietary Limited obviously had some like automated testing or something script or something to measure that. Wow and flutter.

That was a big deal back in the day. Yep, they've lo Wow and flutter at 1985 perf Electronics Show Clermont Showgrounds Did anyone go to that? Hands up. Was that like Consumer Electronics? it was a hundred twenty thousand people or dishwashers compact this year. Consumer Electronics Rubbish Index in PC beholder are look at that.

Fantastic via Tell conversion for the micro. B Hands up if you use Via Tell. Terrific stuff. It's here.

The 802 Eighty Six Intel From Toda you buy the chip. It's just advertising the chip like you know so much for the CPM. We've seen the Micro B's and the MS X's and everything and we're already under the 286 so the 80 must have been released by then. anyway.

o Star project We Mr. Blood. What did we miss? A project? Oh no, that was the via tell that was the via tell D Go look at Art. Even had a budget.

Terrific stuff. Wow Wireless Burglar alarm. That's a product review right now Avaya Tell Get ready for the micro. be more tricky Dicks, here you go Tricky Dick Stern.

He didn't own it back then. he sold it in like 81 or something. Performance quality cos 5100 I had the I had the COS 6100 M My first oscilloscope was saved up every cent I had and bought the CE OS 50 20 which was the 20 megahertz single time based version. anyway.

Omona Computers proprietary limited motor instruments. Okay so they did computers and they do instruments do computers anymore. but the Micro Professor Digital Analog Lab so that they were popular back in the day and it looks like we PC clone up there. Yep Wow so you know look put you buy a PC client at the time or would you buy you know your CPM plus at the same price 2500 bucks I don't think was any contest at the time CPM must have lasted much longer than Cooper Dolls Fantastic cos 50 40 so I I had the 50 20 the 50 Dieppe the 50 20 to 6.

that's about what I paid for it. Yep, 700 bucks plus tax as I've done a video on in the past that this was the you know, pretty much the notional cost for ever like seven. Eight hundred dollars for a twenty Meg you know that was your entry-level scope price. So yeah, true RMS average responding rubbish.

Tricky Dicks some two meter transceivers. Yeah classic tricky decades. back in the day Seeing K components Universal MOSFET amplifier and of course is designed by David Tool Brook because he was the master of a lot of the audio files. Still, today, you know you're still running there David Tool Brook designs.

Anyway, lots of stuff. look at. the parametric occurs absolutely brilliant and it's a fight. Goes into the safe operating area of the transistors and you know lots of stuff.

Jake are dairy Johnson's baby and there's there's the schematic so those playing along at home, there's a David till Brook design. Terrific stuff. It was just a mosfet module, you fancy pantsy. MOSFETs And of course they gave you the foils one to one reproduction so that you can etch him yourself.

None of this behind the PCB rubbish. it's copied it out of the magazine, photocopied it, and way you went. Ellis Tronics Don't lose your memory. Terrific A Beats triggered know that be triggered strobe once again David tyll Brook cuz he was there of staff designer of course but they're They of course had contributed articles i my cell.

I didn't contribute an article. Dad I am um I don't think cuz I had very little money back in the day. so I I think like I got this first issue and I don't I think I might have got a few more issues after that. maybe a year's worth or something.

but I don't think I continue with I am because I couldn't afford to get five magazines a month. That was just nuts. You know that was crazy. Even though Talking Electronics wasn't really a we think it just came out when it came out.

but still you know everything cost money Oh Tom Moffatt Sadly, not with us anymore. Tom You did some great projects. This was one of the classics back in one day. The listening post where you could get satellite fact similes a via shortwave radio.

You plug it in and the audio input from your shortwave receiver and you just decode it on a PC and you could decode the the weather faxes ends up if you did that back in the day. Can you still do it? I don't know. Is that sort of stuff still going to tells you how the picture transmission works and everything? So yeah, it was a fax receiver. Oh Fairchild Double page porn spread.

Look at that. What? Acosta 1484 Fast answers. They couldn't just put it on a single page. They needed the double page spread, right? That's yeah.

that's the centerfold, you know. Obvious Seven, four, F none of this. LS Rubbish. Terrific stuff.

You've got to love it. Anyway, Active Electronics, Let's go subscribe the 31 bucks you know used to fill in the card, send it away with your money order because they will know this credit card rubbish back in the day. Yeah, you would you send it away with your cash or your money order? No bank card. Now you could use Visa or MasterCard but you know kids didn't have Visa or MasterCard z-- back in the day my parents didn't have a Visa or MasterCard or a bank card.

You know? No that rubbish. So yeah, you had to go and get a put it yet check money order. So you went to the post office get a money order. I Just saw someone the other month to get a money order at the local post office.

Oh Quaint. Anyway, back when they published the hick Stops and the program listings trophy stuff. So this is a really good, really meaty first issue. Oh Tricky Dicks Again, How many ads did they have in there? And of course they were.

You know they paid top dollar micro tricks Moo A circuit board design without the tedium. Be who you Smart Works I Don't recall Smart Works I Don't think I ever I know. Anyway, did anyone use Smart Works for PCB design? Let us know Wow Apple Graphics, drawing, pretty pictures and other vital ideas. How to do it on your Apple 2 series computer.

So yeah, once another contributed article. what are these computer things anyway? just in case you didn't know what a computer was back in 1985. Yes, tell me all about it. It's pretty comprehensive.

hiddenly coms, serial coms, bee Buzz but Tom Moffatt of course he was big on the micro be and yep, he wrote the bee buzz column cheese so that brings back memories. anyway. Jamie Harrison is that I don't know. Is that an offspring of Roger Harrison I'm not sure.

Anyway, Scoop review must have just came out the Cpc464 Ah, beautiful stuff. Last I Didn't know anyone who had one like I Like didn't know anyone who owned a computer in 1985. didn't have any money. but they're expensive Like that was 800 bucks.

800 bucks or something. There's a lot of money in 1985. Let me tell you, the scan Tenner Disko an antenna for what above above 30 Migs antenna design I've got some theory simple antennas for suburban sites Roger was really knew his antennas. There you go.

beautiful It just feel your attire. Yep, it's just string up everything. giant pole neighbors won't mind. No worry, no workers.

Phillips Crow is accepted by Ran and Telecom. Beautiful. You know, just the news. This book could save you thousands of dollars.

Our tech rentals. Chase spent a lot of money at Tech Randall's back in the day companies I've worked it. You know you'd end up like renting something for like a week and then like two years later you're still written it like they they just made a fortune. Oh, is that the 23? Yep, 21 and 23 had just come out.

Had they and any tougher and they'd rust. Low-cost non-contact Zap your electronic storing parameter I Never went to Zap, Never went to Zap Electronics. There you go. Why not Speaker output from a triple five? Practicalities: Different ways to drive a speaker from a triple five? now half a dozen different ways.

Beautiful. Promark My tricky Dick ad again and bench book of course is this where you'd send in is a column for circle design ideas of the law which you get paid: I used to send up a a minimum of ten bucks for each sub item published I used to send it in not to a EEM dice to send in circuits to a TI and EA and I can still remember the first one getting published I was sitting on the bus I'd bought my magazine I was sitting on the bus I was reading through auto finally I'd forgotten all about it that I'd sent it in. It was months and months ago and I did flicking through and there was my column. There was my night, that was my circuit and I got my ten bucks or whatever.

Fantastic. I think it was fifteen bucks. you know that was a big deal. Anyway, well that's it.

Charles Scene One computer You seen them all a cherry Brandy's end. What the last laugh Column: They're trying to be funny. Are they Sharps big? LCDs For small places? Yeah, Sharp LCDs Wow 640 by 200. How's the duck? Scott's back in the day and that's it.

That's it. That was a hundred and 230 pages. Pretty meaty for a first issue. Oh, just look at that trio scope that's pornographic.

Look at that. look at all the traces. my cos 6100 M I think it was. It could do twelve traces on the screen.

you know, Because not only would it have the for this would be yeah. this would be four channels. two of them were full, verticle, the other two would be limited. Plus you can get your expanded dual time base so you can expand each one of those four waveforms that you get two, four, six, eight and my one actually had the trigger view as well.

so you know you could actually I think it had a fifth channel or something you plus a trigger view or something. So I got like I had a 12 channel scope technically and of course the other channels were a bit limited, but still. hey you can see him and how much did they cost? Let's have a look 20 May yet where there was that detects paid? you know, 750 bucks. So yeah, that was a going rate for a 20 mega Joule Channel scope back in the day.

Fantastic. There you go. Sorry I did just go down memory lane there on the first edition of Australian Electronics Monthly. Hands up if this was your favorite magazine back in the day and you were excited when it came out.

you were sad when it disbanded and really and the only surviving magazine today is Silicon Chip. although there is Diode, are they still going? I'd done a video on that when they release their first edition. but there you go. Absolute Classic Roger Harrison good Anya David till Brooke Terrific stuff Australian Electronics Monthly I Hope you enjoyed that video a little look back at 1985.

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