On Dec 5, 2021, at 10:42 PM, Dan Halbert <halbert@halwitz.org> wrote:

On 12/5/21 11:25 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
I wonder how many of you don't know about Don Lancaster.

Pioneer in home computing back when that meant something, inventor of a very low cost 1970s video terminal (the TV Typewriter), tremendously skilled hacker, brilliant guy.


In 1970, in eighth grade, I learned digital logic from his "RTL Cookbook" and the SWTPC Digital Logic Microlab, from Popular Electronics: https://www.tinaja.com/glib/microlab.pdf, both of which I still have.

In 1972, while i was still ambivalent about my music ambitions, in the second year of my transition to computer ambitions, pondering the combination of those ambitions, I built one of Lancaster’s function generator projects, depicted on the cover at https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/70s/1972/Radio-Electronics-1972-09.pdf. I think i still have  it in the garage, but am not sure if I could still get it to work.

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