Howard W Sams Radio Photofact Service, Vol 4, # 31 - 41
EN-Genius Reviewer: Dennis L Feucht
by Howard W Sams & Co, Inc, 2924 East Washington Street, Indianapolis 6, Indiana; “B” fast-action binder hardbook; pages: 4.2 inches of them; 1948; priceless
And now for something a little different in electronics book reviews! From half century ago comes a book -- or, more like a manual -- one of a large set that became an electronics institution for decades: the Sams Photofacts.
In the days when radio-TV repair shops were commonplace, electronics repairmen would rely upon the open disclosure of the electronics of consumer devices -- mainly radios, TVs, and phonographs -- from the Howard W Sams company. They published packets of technical information on essentially every consumer electronics radio or television made in America, and for a few dollars, a repair shop could buy a subscription or individual folders to add to a growing collection.
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