A crashing disappointment!

[Bob Eager]

The first amplifier I built used EL34s.

[Steve Walker]

My current one does.

SteveW

[tim...]

but why did you want to do the masters in the first place?

It's an easy on-the-job conversion from electronics to software

And whilst in some careers having a Masters gets you extra brownie points. In electronics, no one will even care

tim

[AndyW]

"The Art of Electronics"? That was one of my set books in the 80s. That and "Analogue and Digital Electronics" by my course tutor.

He wrote the book and it was a set book on the course he taught...what are the chances?

Andy

[Bob Eager]

I had the first edition of AoE, and the second edition came out in the

1990s. The third edition was about 20 years late, and it also has a companion book for an accelerated course, complete with labs, supplementary reading and worked examples.

Pretty common. Most academic books grow out of a course and a set of notes, so at least they are proven.

Google "Fundamentals of Operating Systems"!

[J. Clarke]

I was not familiar with this book. I looked it up on Amazon--the preview has among other things the list of capacitor types, which describes electrolytics as having "terrible" accuracy, "ghastly" stability, and "awful" leakage. Every other type seems to be graded on a scale that goes "Poor-Moderate-Good-Excellent-Best". I like it.

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

Yep, it's accurate. I have a first edition too.

[tim...]

surely in that case you were selecting the institution based upon whether you wanted to *work* there, not based upon the actual degree

tim

[Dave Plowman (News)]

They'll never catch on. 6v6 rules.

[Bob Eager]

I once built an audio amplifoer using 807s.