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Was Don Lancaster really a "guru"?
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rhb:

A snippet of something I just posted to another thread:

The thing that is *really* amazing is that Don's major classics are still in print after over 40 years!  I cannot think of any electronics book that has been in print that long.  Wow!!!!

That's not a guru, that's a Bodhisattva!!!

Even  Jung has been displaced by another author which really surprised me.  But likely due to the churn in op amp chips.  Logic is still logic.
CatalinaWOW:
There are many that have been in print that long, though I agree, I can't think of any that close to the component level that have survived.

Examples of long term survivors.

Fields and Waves in Communications Electronics by Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer.  First published in 1965.  Current price is almost 15 times what I paid in the early seventies.

Handbook of Mathematical Functions.  Abramowitz and Stegun.  First published in 1964.  A bit of cheat since it is now a Dover reprint.

Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise.  Davenport and Root.  First published in 1958.

I know of several others and suspect there are many more.  Things like Feynman's lectures (maybe not exactly electronics), and Donald Knuth's series.


On the theory side, once someone hits a home run it tends to last a long, long time.

rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: floobydust on December 06, 2018, 05:47:23 pm ---There's few people that published large circuit collections, back in the day when paper books and magazines were the media.

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The one I remember we had was Markus' Guidebook of Electronics Circuits - a massive 1000 page compendium of transistor and op amp based circuits. 


--- Quote from: rhb on December 06, 2018, 06:29:38 pm ---The thing that is *really* amazing is that Don's major classics are still in print after over 40 years!  I cannot think of any electronics book that has been in print that long.  Wow!!!!

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The other one that I had in the 1980's and it was already in print for a very long time (30 years) was Valkenburg, Nooger and Neville's Basic Electricity and Basic Electronics books.


--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 06, 2018, 06:50:02 pm ---Fields and Waves in Communications Electronics by Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer.  First published in 1965.  Current price is almost 15 times what I paid in the early seventies.

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I used this one in my Electromag classes at the university - I paid about 10 times less in the 1990s than what it costs today.
In Vacuo Veritas:

--- Quote from: rhb on December 06, 2018, 06:29:38 pm ---
The thing that is *really* amazing is that Don's major classics are still in print after over 40 years!

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So is Dianetics...  :-DD
bd139:
:-DD I actually read that once. Mein Kampf was less retarded.
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