15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
2:38 a.m.
On Dec 14, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
'The Art of ELectronics' is IMHO a book every
electronics engineer
should
own. There's a lot of good stuff in it. Sure there are the odd
things I
disagree with, there are things I'd do differently, but by the time
you've read it, you'll know enough to be able to work out how you'd
want
to do things.
Agreed 100%. That book always lives in an easily-grabbable spot
in my library.
My criticism of the Student Manual is that as it was
written for a
university course, it assumes you have access to some nice test gear
(like a 'scope, bench PSU, etc). This means the esperiments possibly
can't be done by the average hobyist just starting out. But again
there's
a loot of good stuff in it, and I don't think you need too much exotic
stuff for the 68008 circuits.
Eh, a good scope and bench power supply can both be had for less
(possibly much less) than $100 these days. That's not much of a
limitation.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL