I had a couple of his cookbooks back when.
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Ah, yes, Don Lancaster. Could not have done the 6502 programming without him. Read all his articles. Still have his books somewhere around here. Where would we be without his type exploring stuff for our use?
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Then I found this interesting link:https://archive.org/details/don_lancaster?sort=-publicdate
Lots of books and articles read here too.
Lancaster dropped carrier in June.
His website ( tinaja.com ) goes on.
Autobiography - untitled (tinaja.com)
Used to read his articles in Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, Electronics Now, Nuts & Volts, etc.
Much of what he had published is downloadable from his site...
CMOS Cookbook and TV Typewriter Cookbook are probably still useful, and I suspect his Machine Language and Assembly books would be useful for anyone who is interested in learning Assembly language, even though they are aimed at the 6502 microprocesor. (Those were the days where Assembly Language was pretty much your only choice for "fast" programs, so the tutorials aimed at novices were much more detailed in their explanations of basic concepts than you're likely to find today.)
How many have built his TV typewriter? Its schematics etc came out in the early 70's. It was a major key/enabler for the home computer.
I built the keyboard encoder from one of the cookbooks, that I connected to a different glass TTY board.
The full typewriter was a bit too little, too late, for me, and didn't really have any "complete design", anyway...
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