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Was Don Lancaster really a "guru"?
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JPortici:

--- Quote from: alpher on November 08, 2018, 03:50:37 am ---It's really hard to grasp for the younger folks, how much world changed in the last 20 years.

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more like 10 years. When i started thinkering in high school here was NOTHING compared to what hobbyist can get today. 5 years if we want to remember the dark times before cheap-ass pcbs from china became mainstream
I'm amused by the fact that i studied power electronics in a book from the seventies and a couple years later i would have studied from a book from 2010s :)
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: RandallMcRee on November 09, 2018, 04:25:04 pm ---Good stuff. The OP actually created something fun in the world--he is probably thinking hard how to undo it, right now.

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Maybe In Vacuo Veritas is actually Don Lancaster in disguise  :-DD
Tomorokoshi:
Dave: EE Video Blog
Don: EE Paper Book

To some extent they occupy the same space and provide the same need, separated only by the media through which their content is distributed, with minor variations due to the technologies available at the time. There is an appealing fractal nature to this.
Simon:
I grew up in italy so understand how it was because although i am only 35 things in italy are 10-25 years behind. I was over the moon when a friendly TV repairer gave me old RS catalogues and transistor databooks.

The RS catalogue went with me on every car journey and i would pour over each page in a quest to find out what parts could be found in the wild.
rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: MK14 on November 08, 2018, 11:03:02 pm ---Don Lancaster's website, is well worth a visit, if you are interested in that type of thing. Since this thread started, I've probably spent too long, going through the website and some of the resources on it.

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Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all! :-DD

Due to the language barrier as a kid, I did not get to experience firsthand Don Lancaster's writings but we certainly had our share of local writers that, in retrospect, seem a bit exaggerated and puerile (may have even been disciples of Don Lancaster's style). However, as others have mentioned, they were certainly catering to the audience and the style that grasped our attention as kids/teenagers and kept us going despite the usual hardships and troubles that are part of this electronics journey. After all, what they presented was the absolute source of information from the unreachable manufacturers.
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