>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:48:32 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman
>> >It would be hard for a con artist to pass himself off an an electronic
>> >engineer who had a Ph.D.in Physical Chemistry - he'd need to master
>> >two sets of jargon.
>>
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>> You seem to have done it, so how hard could it be?
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>Try it sometime.
Sheeeesh! Slowman can't even _connect_up_ a 555 ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson parades another one of his delusions. Since I managed to make a working phase-locked loop out of his MC4024 and MC4044 back in 1972, it seems obvious that I can cope with cranky components, and the 555 didn't get to be as popular as it was by being tricky to use.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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And your book is "101 things a boy can do with a 555".
It wasn't a hobby device back in 1974 when I first had occasion to look at using it.
The spec I was trying to meet was over-ambitious - the LM322
came a good deal closer to meeting it than the 555, but couldn't hack it either, and I wasted a good deal of time squeezing better - but still inadequate - performance out of an emitter-coupled multivibrator.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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