Don Lancaster

Donald E. Lancaster is a prolific author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns. He is also known for his "TV Typewriter" dumb terminal project, his book on technical entrepreneurship The Incredible Secret Money Machine, and his work on and advocacy of early print-on-demand technology. Lancaster's print-on-demand technique, with which he self-published several books, employed hand-tuned PostScript code sent to a laser printer through the game port of an Apple II rather than, as was common at the time, a Macintosh running PageMaker. He helped design and manufacture the Apple I keyboard. He held a radio amateur license (K3BYG) for a short time. He sells electronic surplus on Ebay and participates regularly in the Ebay seller's forums.

Bibliography

• TTL Cookbook (Macmillan, May 1974). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21035-5
• RTL Cookbook (Sams, 1969). 5th printing (Sams, 1973) Paperback ISBN 0-672-20715-X
• TV Typewriter Cookbook (January 1976). ISBN 0-672-21313-3
• The Incredible Secret Money Machine (January 1978). ISBN 0-672-21562-4
• The Cheap Video Cookbook (Sams, May 1978). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21524-1
• Son of Cheap Video (January 1980). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21723-6
• CMOS Cookbook 1st (Sams, 1980). ISBN 0-672-21398-2, 2nd rev. (Butterworth-Heinemann, January 1997). ISBN 0-7506-9943-4
• The Hexadecimal Chronicles (January 1981). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21802-X
• Don Lancaster's Micro Cookbook (Sams, October 1982). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21828-3
• Assembly Cookbook for Apple II/IIE (Sams, July 1984). Paperback ISBN 0-672-22331-7
• Enhancing Your Apple II (January 1985). Paperback ISBN 0-672-21846-1
• Applewriter Cookbook (January 1986). Paperback ISBN 0-672-22460-7
• The Incredible Secret Money Machine II
• Enhancing Your Apple II and IIe ISBN 0-672-21822-4
• Book-On-Demand Resource Kit
• Lancaster's Active Filter Cookbook (Butterworth-Heinemann, August 1996). Paperback ISBN 0-7506-2986-X
• The Case Against Patents : Selected Reprints from "Midnight Engineering" & "Nuts & Volts" Magazines (Synergetics Press, January 1996). Paperback ISBN 1-882193-71-7

External links

• Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair (official site)
• Don's general bio
• Don's detailed bio