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From: crean@zds-oem.UUCP (Pat Crean  Federal Systems Engineering  x ????)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: TAB books
Message-ID: <1094@zds-oem.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 14:12:00 GMT
References: <1991May6.003753.8745@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu>
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Engineering
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In article <1991May6.003753.8745@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu> derrick@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu (Derrick Williams) writes:
>
> I picked up a TAB book, "30 Customized Microprocessor Projects" by Delton 
>T. Horn. It is listed as TAB book # 2705. It looks like a good introduction
>to microprocessor devices, but I noticed some glaring errors in the schematics
>shown in the book. I'm not an electronics expert (hence buying this "how to"
> Has anyone had a similar experience with this author, or with TAB books in
>general? I've become a bit skeptical about building projects from this book
>as my power supply started to smoke when I built it as described.


I have learned my lesson the hard way --- TAB computer books are either 
editted by someone with _no_ editorial or computer skills (or not editted) 
at all :-)

For a real laugh, try "UNIX Internals" also published by TAB --- not only
are all the listings physically cut and pasted from dot matrix hard copy 
(with a dead ribbon), they even managed to screw up the classic "hello.c"
example program (why would they feel the need to use this example in a
book with this title?).  

Just my opinion.

Pat