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Wireless-World-1985 I es órldJUNE 1985 85p KMAZINUAR CO 1-00.1. Switched-mode power supplies Improving BBC data recording Look after your nicad batteries Ot n; C D'a ; 24.00 www.americanradiohistory.com CONGUIN SOFTWARE Low Cost IBM PC Based CAD Systems smARTWORK AUTOCAD An Electronic LIGHT -BOX allowing layout of General 2D drafting package with auto - component pads with auto or interactive dimensioning. Will support a variety of tracking. Artwork can be printed on Epson graphic displays and output devices. dot matrix printer or plotted on Houston Software from £1000.00. Instrument or Hewlett Packard plotters. Systems from £3495.00. smARTWORK Software only £895.00. Complete systems from £3500.00. SAM 2001 - XT An IBM compatible with 10Mbyte hard disk, will run all IBM software. Can be upgraded to run as fast as an AT. CEDS From £1995.00. A full PCB design system allowing the design of boards from schematic diagrams. 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Phone: 0524 381423 CIRCLE I F'ORFURTHERINFORMATION www.americanradiohistory.com Editor ELECTRONICS 8 PHILIP DARRINGTON Deputy Editor GEOFFREY SHORTER, B .Sc. 01- 6618639 ire Technical Editor wor MARTIN ese ECCLES over 70 years in independent electronics publishing 01- 6618638 Projects Editor June 1985 RICHARD LAMBLEY 01- 6613039 OR 8637 News Editor Volume 91 number 1592 DAVID SCOBIE 01- 6618632 Drawing Office ROGER GOODMAN Fast camera interface 17 Look after your nickel cadmium cells 60 01- 6618690 by Safa S. Omran by Rod Cooper Taking one pixel from each line of a video camera NiCd cells are expensive to buy yet are often BETTY PALMER signal to feed a micro is a solution to the speed thrown away for lack of a few drops of water. Rod problem. This method uses eight. Cooper discusses more failure modes and Advertisement Manager suggests how to avoid them. BOB NIBBS, A.C.I.I. 01- 6613130 Sampled -data servos new analysis -a 34 MICHAEL DOWNING by D.M. 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