Source: Photo clip from online PDF of Getting Started In Electronics by Forest Mims, III, 1983 . Tint added as this is how I remember my copy.
This book and his other manuals were seemed so friendly and were easy to read. My copy started turning yellow almost immediately. The edges may have already been yellow upon buying, that is the memory of what ever printing I had.
Mine fell apart. I was looking for a used copy for my kids and myself; I saw that they were selling for $$. The green covered ones are currently about $35 U.S.
RadioShack had a number of books by him, all of the wonderful. But this book was a synthesis of them all. Containing all the information from those manuals, if I remember correctly.
All too often in those wonderful electronics kits, sometimes containing over 100 different things to build, they were short good exclamation of what you were doing. This book cleared it up.
And Forest Mims copper plate is wonderful to read.
Seems like a happy mutant that would fit in here.
Mims has no formal academic training in science, but still went on to have a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist. His series of electronics books sold over 7 million copies and he is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prolific citizen scientists.
Source: Wikipedia on Forrest Mims, III
And it looks like he’s still alive and doing science (link to family website).
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