Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Advice on getting started...?
Message-ID: <1989Sep27.173153.2775@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15836@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <28333@buckaroo.mips.COM>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 17:31:53 GMT

In article <28333@buckaroo.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
>The best non-mathematical treatment of practical electronic "design and 
>analysis" is THE ART OF ELECTRONICS, 2nd Ed., Horowitz & Hill...
>There is also my old favorite: HOW TO BUILD AND USE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
>WITHOUT FRUSTRATION, PANIC, MOUNTAINS OF MONEY, OR AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, 2nd
>Ed., Hoenig, S.A., Little, Brown, & Co., 1980...

I would second those two recommendations, and add a third.  If digital stuff
is what you want to get into, you could do a whole lot worse than to get
Don Lancaster's CMOS COOKBOOK.  It is getting a little old, but I don't know
of anything even close to it for getting into digital circuits.  (His TTL
COOKBOOK is badly dated by now but also worth reading.)
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