that is where i got mine years ago,, mid 70's i think at radio shack,
what i liked about the series was basically being able to use a integrated circuit with the discrete components and getting some hands on useful experience on some pretty cool circuits, not the phd stuff available these days.
freq to voltage converters, and the like for building tachometers and all sorts of stuff.
perhaps no one builds stuff at home anymore, that hasnt got a solid background in electronics?
i suppose it follows the demise of pop mech, pop science etc, gone are the cool projects one could build at home, in are the product manufactured support of the magazines, and their ready made offerings.
no one fixes anything anymore, nothing?
in my business, we used to overhaul and repair every component of a truck, from alternators and starters, to injectors and pumps, you name it, we rebuilt it,,,, now sadly no one rebuilds much of anything,, we have turned in our industry to parts changers.... that is why i hate the term "technician"
to me in truck repair a technician = parts changer...... mechanic = component rebuilder
i know i have told this story before, but it bears retelling
back home in central kansas the county i grew up in has one very large "junk" yard,,, my dad is the only one that buys stuff from him.... because as the owner states "no one builds anything themselves anymore" Dad figures fine! more to pick from for me, no competition!
i bet we would be hard pressed to find 1% of the american public that builds much of anything mechanical, electrical or electronic today.... my bet is probably less than 10% even build a dog house or a deck, much less anything else
probably less than 1/10 or 1% , work with lister/oids or petter/oids or changfa's,,, pretty sad state of affairs in my opinion.
if the world as we know it does have a major hickup, it is going to be a very interesting time to live in.
i say, get your books, buy them whereever, study up, and try to get a younger kid interested in your projects,,, they will be the experimenters of tomorrow, and the schools are bailing out on it... so there is nowhere for kids to learn it.
i digress...
another book i would like to find again was an engineers quick and dirty book on setting up transistor circuits, none of the high end math etc... just some basic biasing equations to get a transistor to function in a circuit of simple design, close enough to work and do prototyping, then one could fine tune the values and finish the project..... can't find that one either.
bob g