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mc

Jan 1, 1970
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Speaking of the possible 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics...

There are 2 threads about it here, but as far as I can tell, one is about
patents, slavery, and Windows (?) and the other is about tsunamis. Topic
drift...

Have the authors revealed anything about their hypothetical 3rd edition of
this great book? Hopefully, it won't be mostly about tsunamis, or even
slavery.
 
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Scott Stephens

Jan 1, 1970
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mc said:
Speaking of the possible 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics...

There are 2 threads about it here, but as far as I can tell, one is about
patents, slavery, and Windows (?) and the other is about tsunamis. Topic
drift...

ROTFLMAO - thanks, I need a good laugh.
Have the authors revealed anything about their hypothetical 3rd edition of
this great book? Hopefully, it won't be mostly about tsunamis, or even
slavery.

Winfield Hill has contracted me to write the philosophy, politics and
religion chapters, so I might include something.

I need to rant about sex and race more, so I can write chapters on that
too =)
 
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Ben Bradley

Jan 1, 1970
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Speaking of the possible 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics...

There are 2 threads about it here, but as far as I can tell, one is about
patents, slavery, and Windows (?) and the other is about tsunamis. Topic
drift...

Have the authors revealed anything about their hypothetical 3rd edition of
this great book? Hopefully, it won't be mostly about tsunamis, or even
slavery.

There was a much better thread (in that it stayed on topic!)
concerning AoE 2nd in the last year or two, where I recall that Win
asked us for what changes we might want for a future edition (and ISTR
he said it may be a long while before a 3rd edition comes out). I
can't find the thread in google, but I recall I pointed out a
practically identical circuit that was in two of the "Circuit
ideas"/"bad circuits" sections.
 
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Guy Macon

Jan 1, 1970
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Ben said:
There was a much better thread (in that it stayed on topic!)
concerning AoE 2nd in the last year or two, where I recall that Win
asked us for what changes we might want for a future edition (and ISTR
he said it may be a long while before a 3rd edition comes out). I
can't find the thread in google, but I recall I pointed out a
practically identical circuit that was in two of the "Circuit
ideas"/"bad circuits" sections.

Back then I bought copies of various mil specs and commercial
standards for schematic drawing and sent them to Winfield Hill.
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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Guy Macon wrote...
Back then I bought copies of various mil specs and commercial
standards for schematic drawing and sent them to Winfield Hill.

Yes, thanks!
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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mc wrote...
Have the authors revealed anything about their hypothetical 3rd
edition of this great book? Hopefully, it won't be mostly about
tsunamis, or even slavery.

We could pick the third topic in the thread, and write about memes.
 
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mc

Jan 1, 1970
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Winfield Hill said:
mc wrote...

We could pick the third topic in the thread, and write about memes.

Seriously, do you have any specific plans or ideas for the next edition?
 
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Keith Williams

Jan 1, 1970
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ROTFLMAO - thanks, I need a good laugh.


Winfield Hill has contracted me to write the philosophy, politics and
religion chapters, so I might include something.

I need to rant about sex and race more, so I can write chapters on that
too =)

Nope. Those chapters were sub-contracted out to RSW.
 
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Rich Grise, Libertarian

Jan 1, 1970
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ROTFLMAO - thanks, I need a good laugh.
Winfield Hill has contracted me to write the philosophy, politics and
religion chapters, so I might include something.
I need to rant about sex and race more, so I can write chapters on that
too =)

Sex race? Nice guys finish last. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Dave VanHorn

Jan 1, 1970
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I have several friends who want to know if it might be available in Braille.
 
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Kryten

Jan 1, 1970
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Dave VanHorn said:
I have several friends who want to know if it might be available in
Braille.

That would end up being a HUGE book!

You may laugh but I heard of a guy who continued to mess around with
high-voltage valve radio after he went blind. If you asked him where
something was, he would nonchalantly wave his hand past EHT equipment and
say "over there somewhere".

I hope he had a damn good memory...
 
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Paul Burridge

Jan 1, 1970
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That would end up being a HUGE book!

You may laugh but I heard of a guy who continued to mess around with
high-voltage valve radio after he went blind. If you asked him where
something was, he would nonchalantly wave his hand past EHT equipment and
say "over there somewhere".

I knew an old ham in Hastings like that many years ago. He had an
almost supernatural ability to fault-find valve-based radio equipment.
Much respect due. He's almost certainly dead by now, though, sadly.
:-(
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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That would end up being a HUGE book!

You may laugh but I heard of a guy who continued to mess around with
high-voltage valve radio after he went blind. If you asked him where
something was, he would nonchalantly wave his hand past EHT equipment and
say "over there somewhere".

I hope he had a damn good memory...

Kurzweil has some VERY nice OCR/reading software that will allow the
visually impaired and blind to read at least the text of many books. I
don't know what you'd do about schematics and so on. It recognizes
columns and deals well with typical proportional print fonts. It a few
thousand dollars, but that's really not much compared to getting a
Braille paper every day etc., and usually there are tax breaks or
other ways of covering the cost for those in need.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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mc

Jan 1, 1970
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Kurzweil has some VERY nice OCR/reading software that will allow the
visually impaired and blind to read at least the text of many books. I
don't know what you'd do about schematics and so on. It recognizes
columns and deals well with typical proportional print fonts. It a few
thousand dollars, but that's really not much compared to getting a
Braille paper every day etc., and usually there are tax breaks or
other ways of covering the cost for those in need.

Easier than that. The Art of Electronics is typeset with LaTeX. Run it
through detex, and you'll have a fairly clean ASCII text of the whole book,
which can be fed to a speech synthesizer. The diagrams, of course, are
harder...
 
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Dave VanHorn

Jan 1, 1970
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The problem with that, of course, is the conversion process.
No fun at all, for you or the book.

The fellow that I'm asking this for, is a ham, and a builder. He has built a
number of kits, and has some good ideas for other adaptive gear that either
does not exist, or is done so badly that it might as well not exist. It
seems few designers of this stuff actually try to use it without vision.

He amazes me though, building throughhole circuits, operating a chain saw
and table saw...
(yes, he still has all his fingers!)
 
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Kryten

Jan 1, 1970
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Paul Burridge said:
I knew an old ham in Hastings like that many years ago. He had an
almost supernatural ability to fault-find valve-based radio equipment.
Much respect due. He's almost certainly dead by now, though, sadly.
:-(

I hope not due to touching something HT...
 
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