Nuts & Volts - February 2004

Reader Feedback

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saddened by the apparent lack of interest in circuit basics by the current pocket-protector generation. Mr. Frenzel did a splendid job of explaining just what has happened over the past 30+ years, and, to some extent, has allayed my fears that the electronics enthusiast will become an absolute slave to off-the-shelf technology.

Nuts & Volts continues to present a broad spectrum of interesting articles, which I hope will continue. Ray Marston's series on bipolar transistors, Chris Hannold's introduction to FPGAs, and even Don Stulken's letter in “Reader Feedback” (including Nuts & Volts kind offer to distribute Don's circuits and notes) help not only to maintain an interest in electronics basics, but to prove that interest does, indeed, continue to exist at this level. I will always maintain that a grounding in basics is essential, for, as the quote implies, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Jim Wood via Internet

Dear Nuts & Volts:

I greatly appreciate and enjoy your publication. As an electronics student and hobbyist, I thank you and all your contributing editors. I've learned more from your publication than in the 18 months of tech-school that I attended (for a great deal of money!). We live and learn.