SILICON CHIP
Publisher & Editor-In-Chief
Leo Simpson, B.Bus.
Editor
Greg Swain, B.Sc.(Hons.)
Technical Staff
John Clarke, B.E.(Elec.)
Robert Flynn
Advertising Manager
Paul Buchtmann
Regular Contributors
Neville Williams, FIREE, VK2XV
Bryan Maher, M.E. B.Sc.
Jim Yalden, VK2YGY
Garry Cratt, VK2YBX
Jim Lawler, MTETIA
John Hill
David Whitby
Photography
Bob Donaldson
Editorial Advisory Panel
Philip Watson, VK2ZPW
Norman Marks
Steve Payor, B.Sc., B.E.
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SILICON CHIP
PUBLISHER'S LE'1·1'ER
End of volume one;
start of volume 2
Every month the production of SILICON CHIP is a matter of following
a tight schedule as all the various articles are prepared, written,
typeset and laid out. It's a lot of work as you might imagine but most of
it is largely routine; it has to be that way to keep to the schedule. Some
tasks are not routine though, especially if they have not been done
before.
One such task this month was the preparation of the index for our
first volume which spans 14 months, from November 1987 to this
month, December 1987. Inevitably, the preparation of an index must
cause a review of what has been done in the past and when we look
back it is with a certain amount of satisfaction.
Our · first volume contains over 1000 editorial pages, with an
average of around 600 words per page. That adds up to over 600,000
words and millions of keystrokes to prepare the editorial material.
There are hundreds of diagrams, photographs and cartoons and, of
course, the core articles which are our constructional projects. All
told, there were over 60 constructional projects, with some running
over more than one issue.
·
The numbers merely emphasise the large amount of work which has
gone into SILICON CHIP. All this work would be for nought though, if it
was not for the large amount of positive feedback we have received
from you, the readers, in literally thousands of letters. These have
been very encouraging.
In the first few months after we launched SILICON CHIP a number of
readers expressed doubts as to whether we could maintain the high initial standard. Now, there seems to be general agreement among
readers that not only have we maintained the standard, we have improved it. Thank you to all those who have written in with constructive
criticism. We are striving to do even better.
We have some great projects planned for the new year. Some of
these are already finished and are merely waiting for the day when
the semiconductor companies can supply production ICs. In fact, that
is one of the traps in using new semiconductors in our constructional
projects. Sometimes the devices are so new that the semiconductor
manufacturers have yet to put them into full production. Innovation
sometimes has its price.
When all is said and done though, we look back upon our first year
as having been an enjoyable challenge. We look forward to our next
year with great anticipation.
Leo Simpson
