Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook

INTRODUCTION

Since my student days at Texas A&M University I have kept a series of laboratory notebooks. In these notebooks I record details about experiments, measurements, and new ideas. Also included are many electronic circuit diagrams. Dave Gunzel, formerly the director of technical publications at Radio Shack, took an interest in my notebooks in the mid-1970s and suggested that Radio Shack might someday want to publish a book of electronic circuits based on their hand-drawn format. Several years later, Radio Shack assigned me to produce Engineer’s Notebook, a 128-page book of electronic circuits. The book soon became a Radio Shack bestseller. As new integrated circuits were added to Radio Shack’s product line and others were dropped, ...