I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
I also just realized that this was the guy who did the CMOS cookbook,
which was the most beloved book in collection. I used it more than any I
had. Didn\'t he also write a lot of articles for Popular Electronics? RIP, Mr. Lancaster.
Yes, that one too. Don did get people interested in trying different
electonics components and learing about them. Even if people like Bob
Widlar and others designed the components they used in their circuits.
It takes both kinds to design products. They are designed around
other people\'s components.
Don also wrote in magazines like Popular Electronics which a lot of us
read back then to help us get started.
And, AoE as well but for me, I hadn\'t seen that book until around 1990
or so. Way later than Don Lancaster started writing.
I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
(1981-83) was doing 2/3 of the time- and frequency-keeping electronics for
the first civilian DBS system ( Spacetel from AEL Microtel).
The friendly acquaintance with logic ICs that I got from Donâs books made a
great differenceâhe encouraged all sorts of lateral thinking about
applications.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
Phil Hobbs wrote:
boB wrote:
mike wrote:
snip
I also just realized that this was the guy who did the CMOS cookbook,
which was the most beloved book in collection. I used it more than any I
had. Didn\'t he also write a lot of articles for Popular Electronics? RIP, Mr. Lancaster.
Yes, that one too. Don did get people interested in trying different
electonics components and learing about them. Even if people like Bob
Widlar and others designed the components they used in their circuits.
It takes both kinds to design products. They are designed around
other people\'s components.
Don also wrote in magazines like Popular Electronics which a lot of us
read back then to help us get started.
And, AoE as well but for me, I hadn\'t seen that book until around 1990
or so. Way later than Don Lancaster started writing.
I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
(1981-83) was doing 2/3 of the time- and frequency-keeping electronics for
the first civilian DBS system ( Spacetel from AEL Microtel).
The friendly acquaintance with logic ICs that I got from Donâs books made a
great differenceâhe encouraged all sorts of lateral thinking about
applications.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
TEC? Tactical Electromagnetic Coordinator? Total Estimated Cost?
Lancaster\'s TV typewriter popularized proto-PCs prior to Pong\'s home
edition. The TV typewriter provided powerless people with a taste of
control - an opening salvo to subtly subvert TV\'s totalitarian tyranny.
Although my _CMOS Cookbook_\'s covered with dust its bookmarks
denote the last few topics to pique my interest:
* A 4046 rundown circuit for electronic dice or roulette
* A bucket brigade built of 4013s for a Digital to Analog converter
* A 4518 and 4511 LED display driver
* A 4066 used to control a +1/-1 amplifier
God rest his soul.
Danke,
--
Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu
There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
TEC? Tactical Electromagnetic Coordinator? Total Estimated Cost?
Phil Hobbs wrote:
boB wrote:
mike wrote:
snip
I also just realized that this was the guy who did the CMOS cookbook,
which was the most beloved book in collection. I used it more than any I
had. Didn\'t he also write a lot of articles for Popular Electronics? RIP, Mr. Lancaster.
Yes, that one too. Don did get people interested in trying different
electonics components and learing about them. Even if people like Bob
Widlar and others designed the components they used in their circuits.
It takes both kinds to design products. They are designed around
other people\'s components.
Don also wrote in magazines like Popular Electronics which a lot of us
read back then to help us get started.
And, AoE as well but for me, I hadn\'t seen that book until around 1990
or so. Way later than Don Lancaster started writing.
I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
(1981-83) was doing 2/3 of the time- and frequency-keeping electronics for
the first civilian DBS system ( Spacetel from AEL Microtel).
The friendly acquaintance with logic ICs that I got from Donâs books made a
great differenceâhe encouraged all sorts of lateral thinking about
applications.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
TEC? Tactical Electromagnetic Coordinator? Total Estimated Cost?
boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 13:55:50 -0700 (PDT), mkr5000 <mikerbgr@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 3:42:25?PM UTC-4, mkr5000 wrote:
On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 11:26:22?AM UTC-4, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 12:35:21?AM UTC+10, Wanderer wrote:
Don Lancaster wrote books in the 70\'s that kids bought at Radio Shack
and that changed the world.
Actually it didn\'t. People like Tim Berners-Lee and Donald W Davies
had a much larger effect. Bob Widlar and Barry Gilbert gave the kids
components worth playing with, and that was a whole lot more effective
thanDon Lancaster\'s hobby level text-books.
He was a useful guy, but lets not go over the top.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Jesus. This group hasn\'t changed at all.
Pissing on a man\'s funeral ?
I also just realized that this was the guy who did the CMOS cookbook,
which was the most beloved book in collection. I used it more than any I
had. Didn\'t he also write a lot of articles for Popular Electronics? RIP, Mr. Lancaster.
Yes, that one too. Don did get people interested in trying different
electonics components and learing about them. Even if people like Bob
Widlar and others designed the components they used in their circuits.
It takes both kinds to design products. They are designed around
other people\'s components.
Don also wrote in magazines like Popular Electronics which a lot of us
read back then to help us get started.
And, AoE as well but for me, I hadn\'t seen that book until around 1990
or so. Way later than Don Lancaster started writing.
boB
I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
(1981-83) was doing 2/3 of the time- and frequency-keeping electronics for
the first civilian DBS system ( Spacetel from AEL Microtel).
The friendly acquaintance with logic ICs that I got from Donâs books made a
great differenceâhe encouraged all sorts of lateral thinking about
applications.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
I also just realized that this was the guy who did the CMOS cookbook,
which was the most beloved book in collection. I used it more than any I
had. Didn\'t he also write a lot of articles for Popular Electronics? RIP, Mr. Lancaster.
Yes, that one too. Don did get people interested in trying different
electonics components and learing about them. Even if people like Bob
Widlar and others designed the components they used in their circuits.
It takes both kinds to design products. They are designed around
other people\'s components.
Don also wrote in magazines like Popular Electronics which a lot of us
read back then to help us get started.
And, AoE as well but for me, I hadn\'t seen that book until around 1990
or so. Way later than Don Lancaster started writing.
I learned a lot from him too, back around 1980. My first engineering job
(1981-83) was doing 2/3 of the time- and frequency-keeping electronics for
the first civilian DBS system ( Spacetel from AEL Microtel).
The friendly acquaintance with logic ICs that I got from Donâs books made a
great differenceâhe encouraged all sorts of lateral thinking about
applications.
Didnât prevent me from arguing with him about the usefulness of TECs, which
he was fond of trashing in his later years.
Memory eternal!
Charles Petzold had a similar experience to mine and many othersâ, it
sounds like.
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2023/07/In-Praise-of-Don-Lancaster.html
I liked Petzoldâs stuff on OS/2 BITD.