| ??? 04/01/13 21:35 Read: times |
#189599 - my most painful "textbook experience" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I've found, however, that, in recent years, textbooks .... have been wrong more often than they've been right.
many, many moons ago, when getting a PCB made was more than "send us a Gerber, you will have the boards tomorrow" I bought a very expensive book on the ISA bus card (YES, that long ago). I made a Gerber, waited the (then) usual 3 weeks and got a board, had a techie populate it and checked it out on an extender board, made a correction or two and finally were happy. I ordered a production run and FORTUNATELY managed to stop it when I found out that the dimensions of an ISA board as given in the book were 1/4" (do not remember exactly) too large. Had I not pulled the board off the extender in time it would have been a very costly affair, now it 'only' cost a months delay. Since this was before e-mail, I sent a letter to the author but never go a reply. I had an opportunity to look at the 2nd edition of same book in a bookstore and the measurements were sill wrong. Erik |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Wrong circuits in Mazidi's "8051 Microcontroller....." | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I wouldn't expect too many comments | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| my most painful "textbook experience" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: "that book probably isn't widely popular outside India" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Is it possible that one institution or teacher is the cause? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Probably the author's own institution? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The reason for my post | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Have you fed-back to the authors? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| clicking relays | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Website - contact here? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| More problems with that book | 01/01/70 00:00 |