20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
9:05 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
I had a set of "Transistor Projects"
volumes 1 through (I think) 6,
from Radio Shack, when I was growing up. They were written by Forrest
Mims, who was my idol before I started reading Steve Ciarcia's column
in BYTE. :)
I loved Ciarcia until his projects got too big for the average
person to construct like his PC for example.
Anyway, those beloved books were lost at some point,
but over the
last year or so I've been able to acquire copies of them (and others
from the same series) via eBay for a few dollars apiece. I've had
great fun flipping through them, giggling to myself thinking "hey, I
built that when I was eight years old!"
For a father and son project, the link to the old radios seem a
better project than a FET FM receiver.
These books are very simplistic, but the projects do
provide good
hands-on experience and are fun. They are cheap, and they turn up on
eBay with some frequency.
I gave up on e-pay -- too much LOOK RARE -- items that are not rare.
-Dave
I still want to build a octal computer ( I have two now, a PC and a PDP-8 clone)
but the PCB layout is holding me back as well as getting the proms burned.
A 2901 BIT SLICE design is planned just as yet I am not sure just how fast
the design will be since I am going thinking of 12 bit alu card and the machine
is 24 bits.