Don Lancaster
Encyclopedia
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.
Author
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, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns. He is also known for his "TV Typewriter
TV Typewriter
The TV Typewriter was a video terminal that could display 2 pages of 16 lines of 32 upper case characters on a standard television set. The Don Lancaster design appeared on the cover of Radio-Electronics magazine in September 1973. The magazine included a 6 page description of the design but...
" 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
PostScript
PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
code sent to a laser printer
Laser printer
A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. As with digital photocopiers and multifunction printers , laser printers employ a xerographic printing process, but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced...
through the game port of an Apple II
Apple II
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977...
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.
External links
- Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair (official site)
- Don's general bio
- Don's detailed bio