Early days at Watford Electronics
Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 9:58PMPopular UK hobby magazines like Practical Electronics, Everyday Electronics and Practical Wireless featured a wealth of constructional projects for electronics hobbyists to tackle. For most of us, getting components meant sending away for them by mail order. One supplier was Watford Electronics Ltd. of Cardiff Road, Watford, a supplier that I myself used in the 1970’s and 1980’s, as I’ve described elsewhere*. So I was delighted to hear from a former staff member at Watford Electronics, Ian Nicholls, who wrote to me with his interesting story describing life behind the scenes in the earliest days of Watford Electronics. I’ve précised it in this feature, for electronics enthusiasts who, like me, used to mail in to Watford Electronics in an era when home computing was also gaining popularity.
