6 Dec
2021
6 Dec
'21
11:18 a.m.
On Dec 5, 2021, at 10:42 PM, Dan Halbert
<halbert(a)halwitz.org> wrote:
On 12/5/21 11:25 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
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-Elec…
<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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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.