I read mims as a child and enjoy reading through his works today.

Please have Don Lancaster on if you can though.

Thanks to dave & chris for an excellent show!

We had some bad delay on my line this time, so when I thought it was ok to talk, it turns out Forrest or Chris were still talking.

+1 on trying to get the Woz on a future episode!

I very much enjoyed this episode of The Amp Hour. Sounds like Forrest and I are in a similar age range. My mom and dad got me my first multimeter (VOM) at age 11 in 1961. My dad felt compelled to get this so I would stop borrowing his. I also was not attracted to Engineering school. I wanted to touch components. I didn’t want to go to 2 years of classes before I got into electronics and I didn’t see a need for all that math. But I ended up working for >30 years in electronics, designing medical electronic products as an engineer. I learned some from school and some from reading magazines, starting out with Popular Electronics, Electronics World, Radio-Electronics and moving to trade magazines Electronics, EDN. I got my hands on every databook that I could and learned plenty from the Radio Amateur’s Handbook.

I am glad that the hobby seems to be coming back.

You should try to get Don Lancaster on your show (www.tinaja.com) He wrote many books which I used extensively, such as The TTL Cookook, The CMOS Cookbook, The Active Filter Cookbook are among some that I remember. He also had articles in most of the hobbyist magazines and had many suggestions regarding what to become involved in regarding electronics.

Heh, makes me think of Golem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-CtXzWpJY

We had delay issues, as usual. If only someone didn’t live 8000 miles away…