[sdiy] The new guy

[Harry Bissell Jr]

A liitle t&... ah wait... Q&a...

--- Spencer Johnson <marxspeakstruth at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for all the kind words. now for a little
> q&a...
> first of all, how do i reply to these messages so
> that it maintains
> the original format instead of starting a new email
> with the same
> subject line? also, where do the majority of the
> people in this forum
> live? 

earth (I'm not joking... worldwide :^)

i'm in alabama (right, i know, but i'm not a
> hick i swear), and
> i don't know if anyone else is around here. also, as
> i said, i'm just
> starting off in the wonderful world of synth tech,
> and i haven't done
> too much. the extent of my knowledge is building a
> few distortion
> units for guitars and fooling around with some 555
> oscillators etc.
> I've read Mims' "Op amps" book, and LOVED it. I've
> got a pretty good
> understanding of op amps and basic analog
> electronics, but i'm totally
> lost as far as CMOS/TTL/digital goes, and i'm just
> dying to learn
> everything i can about all of this... i learn best
> by reading and
> doing, so if anyone has any suggestions for books
> (especially with
> working schems in them), i'd love to get some
> titles. 

My favirites would be any of the "Linear Applications"
by National Semiconductor.  All of the apps are online
but the books are better because you can read them in
the uh... commode :^P


if anyone has
> tips on getting started (getting a lab set up,
> methods of learning,
> etc.), i'd love to hear those, too. another question
> is: anyone in
> this forum around my age? i'm seventeen, and i was
> wondering the
> average age of people in it.

seventeen might be about the youngest... probably the
oldest would be early to mid 50's.  Paul Schreiber
has still not responded to whether is is really older,
or younger than me :^P

 all of this synth stuff
> is enormously
> interesting to me, and i just can't wait to get
> started on everything
> i can dealing with it. oh... harry, the marx refers
> to karl... hope no
> one's too offended.

I'm shattered ! Next you will tell me its not
"John" Lenin...   :^P

H^) harry