[Nowhere Man]

The article was in the January-February 1980 Elementary electronics magazine, in the “Ask hank, he knows” monthly column, where readers would write this guy with a question or comment, and the man would respond to them.

Yeap, that's the one! I was too lazy to get it the other night. Elementary Electronics is one of the best mags I've ever seen, too bad they went under. I think that issue has an LED timer as well, I'd like to build that project.

[Rca2000]

Indeed it does. It is called “CRYDIT”, an acronym (of theirs) for CRYstal controlled DIgital Tmer. The article is on page 51. It is actually a rather complicated project, with a bunch of SSI IC's and such, rather than a single-chip for the timer ckt, as was(and still is) more popular.

EE had the BEST Antique radio column, from Jim Fred. I was still a young lad of 12-14 when I got these mags, and I kept ALL of them IIRC, and picked up a few others since then.

Personally, my VERY favorite electronics magazine was Radio-Electronics, followed by Electronics World. BOTH of them and EE and ALL of the others, are long gone today. But I have hundreds of all of them, some back to the 30's.