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blackbird9 said:
Ah, great. I remember Weitek! It looks like a very good technical magazine, interesting articles, I can see timing diagrams, state machine diagram (I think?), oscilloscope waveforms... of course out of date now but still a lot of good information, and all the same design principles still apply today. I wonder what is the radiation level there now... but even if the rad is low, I think I don't want to go there, if you stir up some dust containing radionucleides in the old buildings, maybe its not good to breathe it in... the stalkers are brave to go there, and she doesn't wear a filter mask :oops: . I guess she can make some small amount of money from the youtube videos... but is it worth the risk of developing cancer later? So I hope she will be safe...

It seems whoever lived in that flat 40 years ago was an electronics enthusiast :). The shops here used to carry lots of electronics mags back in the 80s... In England we had titles like elektor, wireless world, practical electronics, practical wireless, everyday electronics, maplin magazine, ETI (electronics today international), and others. Sadly there are almost none now, I think wireless world might still be in print, although I'm not certain. I still have some of my old copies of elektor, in fact I think elektor is still in business, but they are on the internet, not on paper. I don't know why the magazines went out of print, but I guess as electronics production was offshored to China, the market for those magazines died away. Or perhaps it's just the internet that killed them, there are lots of electronics sites on the web. It's a real shame, I miss reading ETI and Elektor each month in particular, those were my two favourites! Do you still get electronics mags in Bulgaria? It used to be a great way for young kids to learn about circuits, in fact I started off reading practical wireless when I was still young at school... 😂

Anyway, watching that video with the magazine brought back some memories! Of course, I feel so sorry for the poor people of Pripyat... :'‑(
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This is not a thread to discus other topics than music, so I apologize in advance to others here.

Said that, were she found that magazine “Electronics”, doesn’t look like a flat/apartment, that was probably some school or sci institute, judging by covers and titles of other magazines/journals, a lot of them published by USSR Academy od Science.
Besides, immediately after she is done with browsing magazines there is a brown board on the wall with a fire evacuation plan (11:07). Also, there is a room with something like a podium (11:32) and a gym (11:41).

What is strange is that “Electronics” magazine that she browsed is dated January 26 1989??? Pripyat was completely evacuated in early/mid May ’86, so we have a mystery here, how that magazine ended up there?

I agree with you about magazines, I used to collect all local computer, popular sci and DIY magazines from mid ‘80s to ’99 when I moved to Africa, but unfortunately I lost them all in a basement flood where I stored them for “safekeeping”.
 
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