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favourite technical books
Posted by
temperance
on 03 Feb, 2023 16:09
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Simple question: what are your favourite technical books and why?
Mine:
Crenshaw: Math-toolkit-for-real-time-programming. An interesting book about building integrator and differentiators on small 8bit micro controllers with a sense of humour.
(a free version can be downloaded from some website. But I 'don't know if I can post a link here.)
Sedra Smith: microelectronic circuits.
Well known to must of you for those who still play around with bare transistors. A compact, dense and to the point book. More modern books are boring, heavy and half of the pages could be left out because they contain to much useless illustrations.
Jasper J goedbloed: electromagnetic compatibility. A relative unknown but extremely valuable book about EMC. A good mix between theory and practice. I guard my copy like a dog.
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Posted by
exe
on 03 Feb, 2023 16:58
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Mine is AoE3 (plus X-chapters), but I'm looking for more reading like this. I've read "current sources voltage references", it was also enjoyable reading, though not sure I want to re-read it.
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Posted by
jasonRF
on 04 Feb, 2023 01:58
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"favorite" shifts around depending on what I am interested in at the time. But the books I have probably used the most over the past 25-30 years are
Probability, random variables and stochastic processes, 2nd edition, by Papoulis
Fields and waves in communication electronics, 2nd edition, by Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer
Perhaps not the world's best books, but they have wide scope so include a ton of topics. Both are falling apart from years of use.
jason
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I too can recommend the Art of Electronics (Horowitz and Hill), but I haven't read the x-chapter supplemental book yet.
The truth thesedays though is that an awful lot of topics are more quickly looked up online than in books, not so good for overviews of topics as books are, but easier for searching for one narrow thing. Ofcourse browing is easier in a book, especially if you don't know what the search term would be to find some specific thing online.
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Posted by
tautech
on 04 Feb, 2023 13:34
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All of those Tek books are well worth reading.
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Posted by
David Hess
on 05 Feb, 2023 02:16
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The three, or four depending on how you count, Linear Technology Application Handbooks are my favorites. They are followed by the Analog Circuit Design books edited by Jim Williams. And do not forget Troubleshooting Analog Circuits and Analog Circuits (World Class Designs) by Robert Pease.
After those, my collection of electronics books gets esoteric with things like sampling.
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GE Transistor Manual, 1960s vintage. And its cousin the GE SCR Manual. I guess the RCA series on transistors is also pretty good.
Microelectronics Packaging, Sideris, 1960s.
Not so much because any of it is terribly relevant today, but for the history. I just have a thing for the 1960s. The sense of optimism and creating the future, I don't know, I like it.
And yeah the Tek series are great, even better if you can get them in print for extra vintage goodness.
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Posted by
tautech
on 05 Feb, 2023 22:50
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And yeah the Tek series are great, even better if you can get them in print for extra vintage goodness.
Crying :'( <----no longer works !
I had OSCILLOSCOPE PROBE CIRCUITS in top condition acquired from ePay a decade or more ago but it disappeared without trace which I'm still a little upset about (more :'(). After looking high and low for much longer than its worth it was never found and I only imagine it got placed atop a pile of magazines that got recycled.
Shortly after it was found available online
and someone also uploaded it to Tekwiki
where we can all have a copy now.
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Posted by
temperance
on 07 Feb, 2023 00:48
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Posted by
armandine2
on 07 Feb, 2023 12:08
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useful, well laid out, and kept (revered?)
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Posted by
PlainName
on 07 Feb, 2023 18:07
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The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
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Posted by
Benta
on 07 Feb, 2023 20:05
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"An Engineering Approach to Digital Design", William I. Fletcher.
"Video Demystified!, Keith Jack.
Fletcher is a must, unless you only work with analog (rare these days). The second only if you work with video.
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Posted by
jonpaul
on 07 Feb, 2023 20:30
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Great posts!
BRAVO! Many old favs in the thread.
Just a few from several bookcases, back to college 19680s..
Selected: transformers/Magnetics, analog/sync, EMI/Noise/
Happy to have your thoughts!
Jon
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Posted by
temperance
on 07 Feb, 2023 21:27
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@ jonpaul
nice. The "power line filter design for switch mode power supplies" is available for only €251. Bummer. I'll give you ten euro's including postage. Only valid today.
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Posted by
Benta
on 07 Feb, 2023 22:03
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Just musing...
Are all you guys aware of the value of the books on your shelves?
Many are out of print, and many are still available, but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece.
And they're of a quality (content-wise) that no web site can match.
My message to good engineers: "Put your money where your mouth is" and take care of and extend your library... and leave the "allaboutcircuits" websites to the amateurs.
EEVBlog excepted, of course, because here's where the owners, and more importantly: readers) of those books are present.
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Posted by
PlainName
on 07 Feb, 2023 22:45
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but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece
They might be like Ebay items - that's the notional price the vendor wants to sell them for, but is anyone buying them at that price?
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Posted by
temperance
on 07 Feb, 2023 23:19
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@ Benta
I'm not sure how much I money I spent on technical books. But a lot. The last one I bought was Basso's Linear circuit transfer functions. Expensive but well worth the money.
Also, a good time to scan second hand websites for books is around January/February when some students choose to pursue an other career. That's how I obtained a few books on VHDL for almost nothing.
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Posted by
jonpaul
on 08 Feb, 2023 00:29
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Entire library
more favorite categories.
Historic rare books
BSTJ 1948, 1949 with 3 papers by Shannon and a few about the transistor.
Claude Shannon 1st ed Mathematical Theory of Communications systems 1949
Tektronix Circuits Concerps orig circa 1970s..1980s.
Almost complete set....
From TEK local rep.
Very rare!
Enjoy,
Jon
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Posted by
Benta
on 08 Feb, 2023 01:11
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They might be like Ebay items - that's the notional price the vendor wants to sell them for, but is anyone buying them at that price?
Yes.
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Anything by Bob Pease or Jim Williams. They just got straight to the point with the practical knowledge so you could walk to the bench and get things done. The epitome of the concept that a real expert can explain their wisdom to a 5 year old.
Kind of the opposite approach of the much hyped AOE thing to me. Every now and then I pick it up to reference something and within 5 minutes I'm just like "Fuck it, there's probably an app note from Williams on this subject somewhere" and I put it down for another year.
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Are all you guys aware of the value of the books on your shelves?
Many are out of print, and many are still available, but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece.
And they're of a quality (content-wise) that no web site can match.
My message to good engineers: "Put your money where your mouth is" and take care of and extend your library...
Agree completely.
I was recently trying to find a copy of Helszajn's "YIG Resonators and Filters" (1985) and could not find one for sale anywhere worldwide, at any price. It's one of the "standard" references listed in many books, IEEE articles, etc. on YIG, but it appears to have become commercially unobtainable. (My local university library supposedly has a copy)
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but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece
They might be like Ebay items - that's the notional price the vendor wants to sell them for, but is anyone buying them at that price?
Ebay (and Amazon) often suggest pricing based on what other people have paid for the same or similar items in the past: it's getting much harder to find "deals" on used books these days because now everyone is an expert on book values
Even some thrift shops now scan donated books to see which ones are worth more than a few dollars and those then get listed online (at "market" prices) instead of sold in the store with the romance and cowboy novels.
And yeah, 50-150 USD for a technical book is not uncommon at all. I do a lot of "research" for my job and if a book could save me significant time trying to find information, it's well worth it. I recently was working on a project where I found some extremely useful information in a book that's been out of print for decades.
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Posted by
tautech
on 08 Feb, 2023 08:53
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One I often borrowed in the early days especially when undertaking one's right of passage building your first PSU:
National Semiconductor,
Voltage Regulator Handbook and IIRC the 1982 version
Some darn useful references for rectifier, smoothing and of course common regulator designs albeit they are ordinary linear designs and by todays standards dated yet still of great guidance for the electronic newbie.
ePay search showing a few versions:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=national+semiconductor+voltage+regulator+handbook+1982&_svsrch=1
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Posted by
Smokey
on 08 Feb, 2023 09:56
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Just musing...
Are all you guys aware of the value of the books on your shelves?
Many are out of print, and many are still available, but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece.
And they're of a quality (content-wise) that no web site can match.
My message to good engineers: "Put your money where your mouth is" and take care of and extend your library... and leave the "allaboutcircuits" websites to the amateurs.
EEVBlog excepted, of course, because here's where the owners, and more importantly: readers) of those books are present.
I should really catalog all the books on the shelves here. That would be an interesting list.
I love adding new books to my technical library. Ebay is absolutely amazing for $5-$10 books with WAY more than $5-$10 worth of value. Sometimes I feel like my mailman must think I'm running a used book business or something.
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I have many books in my collection, such as The Art of Electronics, in both printed form and eBook form. Mostly for convivence. I use the printed books at home and the eBook versions on the road.
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Posted by
Benta
on 08 Feb, 2023 23:35
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Bob Pease, "Troubleshooting Analog Circuits" is also on my shelf. Personal present.
Great guy, we had him at a company engineer's meeting as speaker. Had dinner with him afterwards, the discussion was very stimulating and often surprising. But a totally "down-to-earth" type, one of the most sane and conscious persons I've ever met. It was a nice evening.
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Slightly over 1000 tomes in print and around 24xx as Ebooks (excluding appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.) and all listed (including the appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.).
But several GB and also several stacks of copied paper remain to process.
Just some highlights which have helped me much:
- the complete, 6-volume set of the Telefunken Laborbuch Series
- Handbuch der Elektronik, T. Adamowicz et.al., Franzis 1979 (much on RF topics)
- of course, the big Nuehrmann (Werkbuch der Elektronik)
- Sylvia Goldsmith, Real-Time Systems Development
- On SW topics also Knuths 'Basic Algorithms' and the masive 'Software Engineers' Reference Book'
- Tool Engineers Handbook,McGraw-Hill 1959
- Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook, Sclater/Chironis
- Schaltungsaufgaben in der fernschreib- und Signaltechnik, Siemens (magnetic counters, logic and dividers!)
- the excellect Thiemig series on nuclear instrumentation
- and much much more on pulse power techniques, EMI/EMC/EW, SRMQ, Aerospace electronics, electromechanics
For RF and EW topics, always look out for the stuff from Artech House (UK). And several of the IET-published works are also indespensable.
I already saw that several of you keep the Electronics' engineers handbook (Fink/Christiansen) on their shelves - this was one of the first expensive books which I got (I was around 16). It is excellent - an no pirated scan or OCR seems to exist! Several company-published technical pocketbooks are also real pearls.Like the 'Teldix Taschenbuch der Navigation' or the 'SEL pocketbook'. Always be on the lookout for such!
Maybe I can sometime later give another few examples of outstanding works.
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Posted by
gbaddeley
on 09 Feb, 2023 11:20
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For pre-transistor general & practical electronics tech, it is hard to go past Radiotron Designers Handbook, 4th Ed. I also have Ed. 1, 2, 3 for curiosity sake. The RCA tube handbooks are also very good.
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Posted by
TomKatt
on 09 Feb, 2023 11:55
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I miss the days you could get IC data books for free from the manufacturers... I had
volumes of TI and National Semi books - and built countless circuits from the example schematics.
And while I may not refer to them much any longer, I wouldn't have got to where I am without Forrest Mims and those pocket engineer books
But I would second 'The Art of Electronics' - the master reference.
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I wouldn't have got to where I am without Forrest Mims
Those books are some of the best introductory electronics texts I've ever seen.
I took advantage of the employee discount at Radio Shack to complete my collection
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Posted by
armandine2
on 14 Feb, 2023 13:22
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another vote for Ladybird book of?
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Posted by
IdahoMan
on 18 Feb, 2023 07:28
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My grandfather's old Basic Electricity NAVPERS book.
Ex:
Straight-forward, step-by-step, and NO flip'n SI-units.
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Posted by
Smokey
on 18 Feb, 2023 20:15
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
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Posted by
TimFox
on 18 Feb, 2023 22:01
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My grandfather's old Basic Electricity NAVPERS book.
Ex:
Straight-forward, step-by-step, and NO flip'n SI-units.
The source of many a novice's complaint about "negative" current flow direction.
Volts and Amperes
are SI units--many physics textbooks use "Gaussian" cgs units instead, with "statvolts" and "statamperes".
Otherwise, good practical series of texts.
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Posted by
exe
on 18 Feb, 2023 22:08
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
Not yet, but looking closely. Esp. if there is something cheap, or there is an e-book. Why are you askin'?)
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Posted by
IdahoMan
on 19 Feb, 2023 08:58
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
Close.
I'm thinking of getting an ARRL Handbook of a good year.
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Posted by
Smokey
on 19 Feb, 2023 21:00
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
Not yet, but looking closely. Esp. if there is something cheap, or there is an e-book. Why are you askin'?)
There have been a fair number of times I've seen someone here talking about how much they like some piece of test equipment, or how much good information is in some book, and I've gone straight to ebay and seen that thing selling for way less money than the actual value it has to me. I love that we live in a world where that's possible on a normal person's budget. Books are the perfect example of this. Often times so cheap vs their potential value. Just curious who else does that.
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Posted by
exe
on 19 Feb, 2023 22:04
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Just curious who else does that.
The books I'm looking for are expensive, and usually not on sale in the country I live
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Though there is one exception to this: ARRL. There were tons of them on the ham radio flea market. I bought the one from the 1954 (21st edition). I paid 5euros for it, though originally it cost $3 (that's written right on the front cover). So, kinda overaid, but I wasn't in the mood to argue over 5euros). Sadly, I don't read it, it just collects dust on the shelf.
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Posted by
alm
on 19 Feb, 2023 23:36
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
I ordered some National Semiconductor and Linear Technology application handbooks, as mentioned by tautech and David Hess, that were available cheaply. I like to have this information printed. National has the bad habit of removing app notes of devices that are no longer available from their website, even though it may contain concepts that are still relevant. Like
a few app notes written by Jim Williams when he worked for National. I'm guessing they won't break into my house to tear out pages from printed books
. I also bought "Soul of a New Machine" mentioned by PlainName, since it looked like a fun read.
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Posted by
Benta
on 19 Feb, 2023 23:51
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The books I'm looking for are expensive, and usually not on sale in the country I live .
According to your flag, you live in one of the richest and most privileged countries in the world.
Hopefully your post is meant as a joke...
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Posted by
PlainName
on 20 Feb, 2023 00:14
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I also bought "Soul of a New Machine"
Do let us know what you think of it.
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Book prices are crazy today. I bought my copy of Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer as an undergrad. The price stamped in the fronts piece is $12.50 (USD). Then a decade later in grad school one of the courses required the same book. Went to the bookstore and found that it wasn't t a new edition so I didn't need to purchase another. Good thing since the price was up near $80. It is more now. But strangely enough old editions of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and Machinery's Handbook are quite reasonable. And quite useful as the have data and recipes not found in more recent editions. Base diagrams for vacuum tubes for example.
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Posted by
rdl
on 20 Feb, 2023 00:34
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I got this years ago for just $5 including FedEx shipping. It actually came from Digi-Key. I don't know if they still sell a hard copy version, but you can download a pdf for free if you have a TI account (or do a internet search). It's full of useful info related to electronics in general not just for analog.
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Posted by
armandine2
on 20 Feb, 2023 11:17
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How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
I got a second edition of Ramo et al and the GE Transistor Manual
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I'm thinking of getting an ARRL Handbook of a good year.
I usually buy the latest copy every few years, but mostly just as a way to support the league
The content does change from year to year and I do think they are getting better over time, but I think any edition from the previous 10 years doesn't differ much from the current edition in terms of basic content.
In my opinion, the ARRL handbook, and many of their other publications, are some of the best resources for electronics hobbyists. The RSGB books are also nice, but I think they tend to be more focused on the builder / experimenter (i.e. people who already have some experience in electronics)
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Book prices are crazy today.
College textbooks and "professional" books (like Artech House) have never been cheap. What's crazy now is that the used book market is drying up: I used to be able to pick up older (current edition -1 or -2) electronics books for just a few dollars, and now they are often priced almost the same as a new book! (This is true, in my experience, for non-technical books as well).
But strangely enough old editions of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and Machinery's Handbook are quite reasonable.
When I was in high-school, CRC used to sell new copies of the previous year's handbook at a steep discount (like, 80-90% off) to students. Still have my copy
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Posted by
TimFox
on 20 Feb, 2023 16:37
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Back when the publisher was still called "The Chemical Rubber Co.", we nicknamed their Handbook "The Rubber Bible".
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When I was in high-school, CRC used to sell new copies of the previous year's handbook at a steep discount (like, 80-90% off) to students. Still have my copy
Yeah, they were doing that in my day also, and I still have my copy. A bit shop worn, but still useful and sometimes quicker than Google. The two books to the right of the Chemical Bible are worth discussing. I have found the Handbook of Mathematical Functions extremely useful. Tables of values allow checking accuracy of functions in libraries I am using and also anything I am generating. And rational approximations allow quick computations when appropriate. The Handbook of Physics on the other hand has been a complete bust for me. Don't know if the book is fundamentally flawed, or if my brain is too aligned to the engineering side of things but I have gotten little value out of it. Too bad, since I paid full price for that one.
The next picture shows a group of old handbooks I have acquired, some in the last year. They, along with a 30th addition CRC have all cost just a few dollars.
The next pictures show some of the harder hitting parts of my bookshelves. Almost all of the books in the pictures are used regularly. A few are worth special mention. In the first picture, Numerical Methods is a fine book to understand numerical differentiation and integration, how they are applied in simulation and how quantization error can be propagated and how it can be minimized. In the second picture, Discrete Techniques in Parameter Estimation by Jerry Mendel has proved far more useful than I ever dreamed when I took the course. The world is seldom so kind as to provide you with noise and error free data, or with simple linear behavior. Having tools to deal with it is widely useful.
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Posted by
TomKatt
on 21 Feb, 2023 11:27
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While not reference materials per se, I learned quite a bit about digital circuits from Steve Ciarcia's 'Circuit Cellar' articles in BYTE Magazine... I eventually bought the book compilation and built my first Persistence of Vision project in the late 80's. His projects were a great foundation for the microcontroller boom that came years later with the PIC and AVR.
In the same vain, Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbook (+ CMOS Cookbook) were great resources for learning digital circuits. Still have those buried somewhere.
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Posted by
EddieLane
on 22 Feb, 2023 14:09
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Slightly over 1000 tomes in print and around 24xx as Ebooks (excluding appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.) and all listed (including the appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.).
But several GB and also several stacks of copied paper remain to process.
Just some highlights which have helped me much:
- the complete, 6-volume set of the Telefunken Laborbuch Series
- Handbuch der Elektronik, T. Adamowicz et.al., Franzis 1979 (much on RF topics)
- of course, the big Nuehrmann (Werkbuch der Elektronik)
- Sylvia Goldsmith, Real-Time Systems Development
- On SW topics also Knuths 'Basic Algorithms' and the masive 'Software Engineers' Reference Book'
- Tool Engineers Handbook,McGraw-Hill 1959
- Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook, Sclater/Chironis
- Schaltungsaufgaben in der fernschreib- und Signaltechnik, Siemens (magnetic counters, logic and dividers!)
- the excellect Thiemig series on nuclear instrumentation
- and much much more on pulse power techniques, EMI/EMC/EW, SRMQ, Aerospace electronics, electromechanics
For RF and EW topics, always look out for the stuff from Artech House (UK). And several of the IET-published works are also indespensable.
I already saw that several of you keep the Electronics' engineers handbook (Fink/Christiansen) on their shelves - this was one of the first expensive books which I got (I was around 16). It is excellent - an no pirated scan or OCR seems to exist! And it's great that now we can find so many books and other sources on the internet, and some of them are free. I have to read and write a lot so informational sources are beneficial for me. Some time ago, I was writing one paper, and this page provided me with free essay examples on management, which helped me with a paper for my extra course. And it saves me so much time and effort. Several company-published technical pocketbooks are also real pearls.Like the 'Teldix Taschenbuch der Navigation' or the 'SEL pocketbook'. Always be on the lookout for such!
Maybe I can sometime later give another few examples of outstanding works.
And which of this book you'd recommend to read first of all?
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#52 Reply
Posted by
Smokey
on 22 Feb, 2023 23:03
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Slightly over 1000 tomes in print and around 24xx as Ebooks (excluding appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.) and all listed (including the appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.).
But several GB and also several stacks of copied paper remain to process.
Just some highlights which have helped me much:
- the complete, 6-volume set of the Telefunken Laborbuch Series
- Handbuch der Elektronik, T. Adamowicz et.al., Franzis 1979 (much on RF topics)
- of course, the big Nuehrmann (Werkbuch der Elektronik)
- Sylvia Goldsmith, Real-Time Systems Development
- On SW topics also Knuths 'Basic Algorithms' and the masive 'Software Engineers' Reference Book'
- Tool Engineers Handbook,McGraw-Hill 1959
- Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook, Sclater/Chironis
- Schaltungsaufgaben in der fernschreib- und Signaltechnik, Siemens (magnetic counters, logic and dividers!)
- the excellect Thiemig series on nuclear instrumentation
- and much much more on pulse power techniques, EMI/EMC/EW, SRMQ, Aerospace electronics, electromechanics
For RF and EW topics, always look out for the stuff from Artech House (UK). And several of the IET-published works are also indespensable.
I already saw that several of you keep the Electronics' engineers handbook (Fink/Christiansen) on their shelves - this was one of the first expensive books which I got (I was around 16). It is excellent - an no pirated scan or OCR seems to exist! Several company-published technical pocketbooks are also real pearls.Like the 'Teldix Taschenbuch der Navigation' or the 'SEL pocketbook'. Always be on the lookout for such!
Maybe I can sometime later give another few examples of outstanding works.
And which of this book you'd recommend to read first of all?
Better learn german!
I have "Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook". I like this one for it's "fun" value. Its like a picture book for mechanically curious adults. Often times a brain twister as you try to figure out how a mechanism works from a single line drawing.
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#53 Reply
Posted by
Benta
on 22 Feb, 2023 23:54
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Better learn german!
I have "Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook". I like this one for it's "fun" value. Its like a picture book for mechanically curious adults. Often times a brain twister as you try to figure out how a mechanism works from a single line drawing.
Yes, there's a wealth of books in German (I'm in the fortunate position of being able to read both English and German), but certainly also in Spanish, Italian, French, Russian etc. where I lack the linguistic skills.
The book you mention sounds a bit like "Rube Goldberg", I hope it isn't.
But we all love real books. Great!
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#54 Reply
Posted by
Smokey
on 23 Feb, 2023 04:38
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Yes, there's a wealth of books in German (I'm in the fortunate position of being able to read both English and German), but certainly also in Spanish, Italian, French, Russian etc. where I lack the linguistic skills.
When I was an undergraduate, a "serious" STEM major (although they didn't call it "STEM" back then) would typically take a "xxxx" for reading knowledge" course, where "xxxx" was either German or Russian. There was a lot of good stuff being published in those languages, and in the pre-computer/pre-internet age you would be missing out on many advancements in your field unless you could read at least one of those languages.
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#56 Reply
Posted by
Smokey
on 29 Aug, 2023 09:25
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Someone recently mentioned "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic". I picked up an ebay copy. Good stuff. Would recommend to a friend.
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Posted by
RJSV
on 24 Sep, 2023 03:26
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'Practical Clock Escapements'. By Laurie Penman
It's another 20 years older now, but that book for me represents a bit of return to mechanical devices and engineered futuristic 'nanotechnology' devices. (Even though that book kept the topic on regular clocks.)
That book was a sort of symbol, there in the office room, surrounded by mechanical prototypes of computer subsystems. Besides, it provided a needed practical grounding, reality check, as I (struggled) to understand the details in the book. Had a pleasant and interesting talk with the book's author, Mr. Penman himself, who I recall was a mechanical engineer.