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I think in that era electronic equipment often came with schematics in the West, too. I'm pretty sure our TRS-80 manuals had a schematic, and I remember openin
by caf 9y ago
I think in that era electronic equipment often came with schematics in the West, too. I'm pretty sure our TRS-80 manuals had a schematic, and I remember opening up a few transistor radios to find the schematic screen-printed on the inside of the case.
- lb1lf 9y agoI remember poring over the C64 schematic for hours on end back in the eighties. I believe it was printed as a fold-out at the back of the programmer's reference guide. That schematic probably more than anything else influenced my later career as an electronics engineer - I really, really wanted to be able to figure out how it all came together and actually made a useful product.
- digi_owl 9y agoThe family (CRT) TV in the 80s came with a fold out schematic tucked in a pocket on the inside of the back cover. And a CRT is not something to take lightly, as there is a sizable transformer in there to drive the electron gun and the magnets that deflect the beam. What happened, imo, is the increasing used of ICs (first standardized ones, and later ASICs). This made it much harder to troubleshoot a device without access to an oscilloscope and the ability to order up OEM parts. Before that a multimeter and some basic understanding of electric circuits could get you a long way.