The one thing they were good at was instilling excitement and wonder at what simple designs could do. But yeah, I think only the digital counter circuits made

The one thing they were good at was instilling excitement and wonder at what simple designs could do. But yeah, I think only the digital counter circuits made sense to me then. Wish Mimms had made books showing biasing and calculations for transistors and op-amps. Maybe too much math for too little space… I feel like the designs could have been kept simple (a not relied on part characteristics) where almost any transistor of a particular type could be have been used. Surely a simple audio amp or light detector need not be critically dependent on the exact parameters of a specific part… Oddly, I remember the books covering SCRs and TRIACs, but those were never covered in my university courses… Think we skipped JFETs too…