I recently ordered four 1960s catalogs by Piotr Mikołajczyk, which I was keen on for years, maybe even decades - to grow my collection which previously consisted of two small ones by Leon Niemcewicz that I also show here. Walking you through some, but definitely not all vontage Polish tube catalogs, taking a deep dive into EL34 characteristics, and even taking a closer look at different lowercase "a" variants of Gill Sans... I'm a type nerd, have been since I joined the Book Art Museum and laid my hands on a Monotype machine.

These catalogs didn't cost me all that much (about 100PLN for four big ones, while a single one can go up well over 200 on OLX), they will be a great addition to my lab. I'll grow my collection further in the future, maybe even including American catalogs like the RCA receiving tube manual (this could come in handy here). But for now, these are lovely.

0:00 Intro 1:00 Opening the Box 2:10 The Big One! 1960 Universal Vade-mecum 4:45 Semiconductors 5:37 Browsing the Vade-mecum 9:30 Double Volume One 10:30 The One-of-Two Volume 1964 Electronic Universal Vade-mecum 14:35 Finding EL34 18:10 1963 Little Book by Niemcewicz 21:08 Tables of Data 22:40 1967 Big Book by Niemcewicz 24:35 Typography Infodump! 26:00 Datasheets 27:00 EL34... Again! 32:44 Afterword and Thoughts on Tube Catalogs

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