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The heading and cover font are BentonSans, the text font is Myriad Pro, and
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About the Author
Charles Platt became interested in computers when he acquired an Ohio
Scientific C4P in 1979. After writing and selling software by mail order, he
taught classes in BASIC programming, MS-DOS, and subsequently Adobe
Illustrator and Photoshop. He wrote five computer books during the 1980s.
He has also written science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man (published
originally by Bantam and later by Wired Books) and Protektor (from Avon
Books). He stopped writing science fiction when he started contributing to
Wired in 1993, and became one of its three senior writers a couple of years later.
Charles began contributing to MAKE magazine in its third issue and is cur-
rently a contributing editor. Make: Electronics is his first title for Make Books.
Currently he is designing and building prototypes of medical equipment in his
workshop in the northern Arizona wilderness.