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Was Don Lancaster really a "guru"?
jfiresto:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 16, 2020, 05:36:25 pm ---... Yes, professional engineers and engineering students had access to datasheets and whatnot but that was never Don's audience. His target was hobbyists, the people who today would typically be called "makers" or whatever....
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Don's audience was much broader than that. From the preface of the CMOS Cookbook, second edition:
The first edition states pretty much the same.
james_s:
Well something else to remember is that CMOS ICs were brand new, so there were a lot of engineers who got their education in the 1950s and were accustomed to working with vacuum tubes and later discrete transistors. I could see there being quite a few seasoned engineers who'd had no exposure to this entirely new class of components.
Either way his largest audience was hobbyists of one level or another.
jfiresto:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 16, 2020, 06:15:45 pm ---Well something else to remember is that CMOS ICs were brand new, so there were a lot of engineers who got their education in the 1950s and were accustomed to working with vacuum tubes and later discrete transistors. I could see there being quite a few seasoned engineers who'd had no exposure to this entirely new class of components.
Either way his largest audience was hobbyists of one level or another.
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That's as may be, but that does not diminish Don's broader audience. I do not have to remember: I bought the CMOS Cookbook when it first came out.
schmitt trigger:
Don Lancaster, Forrest Mims, Walt Jung, Doug Self and many others wrote books and articles which bridged the enormous gap between full academic textbooks and elementary hobby-grade publications.
For that I am grateful.
Alex Eisenhut:
Come to think of it, it's his fault I have a Tektronix 547.
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