Another great has passed (Don Lancaster)
On 6/28/23 20:15, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I learned to reverse engineer things from reading Don Lancaster's Apple articles eve though I had an Atari. I read ton's of his articles in everything from the Computer Shopper to various Apple mags. I even poked around on his web site from time to time. He was quite the prolific writer. He will be missed. :-( -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
Wow. This is very sad On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 8:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf. *sigh* DC On 6/28/2023 8:15 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I remember getting a couple of his books through an electronic book club in the 1970s when I was in my teens. His name was well known through the 70s and 80s, and then as often happens in one's life we forget a great name like his until you see their obits 8-( On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf. *sigh* DC
On 6/28/2023 8:15 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello! Makes sense. I have here a couple of his books, including the ones I mentioned before. Douglas would you, and you as well Jeff, be interested in two donations both of them are the Cheap Video pair? Let's let sleeping velociraptors lie. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 7:11 PM Daveyk021 via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I remember getting a couple of his books through an electronic book club in the 1970s when I was in my teens. His name was well known through the 70s and 80s, and then as often happens in one's life we forget a great name like his until you see their obits 8-(
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf. *sigh* DC
On 6/28/2023 8:15 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
And this space does belong to the Rebel Alliance.
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf.
Indeed. I still have my copy of the Cheap Video Cookbook I got as a teenager, and the TVT 6-5/8 board/kit from it. I built it years ago but never had a KIM-1 to test it on. I fixed that this year so it's on my list of ancient projects to finish. Semi-randomly, I was just on his website a couple of weeks ago picking up ebooks. -ethan
Hello! I agree. I mean I have both books here, plus his TV Typewriter cookbook, and also the TTL one, and the Active Filter Cookbook. In fact the TV Typewriter cookbook copy I own is the same one keeping its namesake company in the museum. I found his style of writing to be easy to follow and quite useful. For example I'd reach for that TTL cookbook for a preset collection of part numbers before I would find the datasheets for them. An example was for the ALU the SN74181 part. Jeff some sort of memorial needs to be put in the museum by both. Oh and the two velociraptors are taking the holiday off and will be back on Wednesday. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 3:07 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf.
Indeed. I still have my copy of the Cheap Video Cookbook I got as a teenager, and the TVT 6-5/8 board/kit from it. I built it years ago but never had a KIM-1 to test it on. I fixed that this year so it's on my list of ancient projects to finish.
Semi-randomly, I was just on his website a couple of weeks ago picking up ebooks.
-ethan
We have them in the museum, they are not currently on display. But I'll definitely think about that on the short term. We have a TV Typewriter / terminal from a member that I have in the queue for restoration. That will be a perfect op to put the book out with a poster about Don Lancaster. DC On 6/29/2023 7:03 PM, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello! I agree. I mean I have both books here, plus his TV Typewriter cookbook, and also the TTL one, and the Active Filter Cookbook. In fact the TV Typewriter cookbook copy I own is the same one keeping its namesake company in the museum.
I found his style of writing to be easy to follow and quite useful. For example I'd reach for that TTL cookbook for a preset collection of part numbers before I would find the datasheets for them. An example was for the ALU the SN74181 part.
Jeff some sort of memorial needs to be put in the museum by both.
Oh and the two velociraptors are taking the holiday off and will be back on Wednesday. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 3:07 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf.
Indeed. I still have my copy of the Cheap Video Cookbook I got as a teenager, and the TVT 6-5/8 board/kit from it. I built it years ago but never had a KIM-1 to test it on. I fixed that this year so it's on my list of ancient projects to finish.
Semi-randomly, I was just on his website a couple of weeks ago picking up ebooks.
-ethan
On 6/29/23 21:44, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
We have them in the museum, they are not currently on display. But I'll definitely think about that on the short term. We have a TV Typewriter / terminal from a member that I have in the queue for restoration. That will be a perfect op to put the book out with a poster about Don Lancaster.
+1 -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
I fixed that this year so it's on my list of ancient projects to finish. Sweet!
On 6/29/2023 3:06 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
He was a legend. I have his seminal book on the shelf.
Indeed. I still have my copy of the Cheap Video Cookbook I got as a teenager, and the TVT 6-5/8 board/kit from it. I built it years ago but never had a KIM-1 to test it on. I fixed that this year so it's on my list of ancient projects to finish.
Semi-randomly, I was just on his website a couple of weeks ago picking up ebooks.
-ethan
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