<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2025, at 4:14 PM, Terry Bowman <<a href="mailto:ka4hjh@gmail.com" class="">ka4hjh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Having said that, when they weren't selling the same Tesla coil or laser by "that guy" there were true gems in there. The best one that I have is on arc and oxyacetylene welding. Excellent and written by someone who knows their subject. If I ever need to use a torch I'll pull that one off the shelf.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I don't mean to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. A few of the Tab books I have are truly useful. The one on EPROMs was informative and I'm sure there were others. The noise level at Tab was a bit high, though, and the fun/dangerous stuff from Information Unlimited was really expensive. For me everything in those books was just a tease and it left a bad taste in my mouth. YMMV.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Speaking of Information Unlimited:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230811062305/https://amazing1.com/" class="">https://web.archive.org/web/20230811062305/https://amazing1.com/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>All very cool but ouch.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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