SOMETHING NEW IN THE CUPBOARD

There's a phlog post I've been failing to finish for weeks, and 
while writing it I was reminded of the collection of Electronics 
Today International (ETI) circuit book scans that I assembled about 
a decade ago. ETI was an electronics magazine which, in spite of 
the name, seems to have been mainly an Australian pulication. 
Alongside Electronics Australia it was popular in the 1970s and 
1980s, when they got into the habit of publishing circuit/project 
books compiling past articles and submissions. I've built some of 
the circuits, and it's also quite thought inspiring just to read 
through.

I do however have a habit of forgetting about these books and 
instead finding half-baked electronics projects on the internet for 
which better alternatives are already in them on my shelf. Years 
ago I had the idea that I should scan the contents pages and most 
interesting articles, so I could look at them from the computer as 
easily as websites. So about a decade ago I obsessively scanned in 
a whole lot of them, and... completely forgot I'd even done so. 
Yeah it didn't work at all, and indeed I see now there are again 
some projects I scanned which would be good alternatives for 
projects I've since copied from sketchier online designs.

But, always keen to find some content other than my own moanings to 
fling into the Gopherspace, I've now decided they're a good fit 
inside The Cupboard:

gopher://aussies.space/1/~freet/cupboard/ETI_circuit_book_scans/

Although ETI hasn't been on newsagent's stands for decades, I do 
know that the rights were bought by Silicon Chip magazine which has 
made some effort at getting ETI and EA magazine scans taken down 
from websites in the past. It nags a little at my law-abiding 
nature to share them here, even though I think it's really dumb 
that documents like this that are 40-50 years old are still under 
copyright protection for decades to come. But since the government 
changed the political party minimum membership rules and killed off 
my ability to vote for the Pirate Party and similar democratic 
representatives of better copyright laws at recent elections, I now 
feel less inclined to respect the system.

By the way, any names written on the corners of pages aren't mine. 
Like most things of mine these circuit books are all second-hand. 

Requests to scan in articles I didn't bother with but are listed 
on the contents pages will be considered.

 - The Free Thinker