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| The high consumption of electrical energy, prompting fears of exhausting traditional fuels used by power generating plants, has paved the...

| Some methods used in electronics are based on models that cannot, in fact, be the case. For example, currents flow continuously and yet co...

| About a year ago I reviewed the Boardmaker2 software for the drawing of sehemaues and PCB layouts. This package does not allow the schem...

| When the Atari ST is provided with an external hard-disk drive, it has to be reset after about 15 seconds, as otberwise the drive is not...

| The proposed transmitter provides an optical(infra-red). that is, wireless, connection to a head-phone. The receiver is described in the nex...

| This article is one from our 90s collection, the articles are downloadable as a PDF for all our members. Although the information we have on...