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In Vacuo Veritas:
So I found these articles by some guy that apparently was quite popular years ago in the electronics world: Don Lancaster.

However I have found most of his columns in magazines to be content-free, typo-filled, hyperbolic, self-aggrandizing prattle. A self-appointed "guru"? Really?  ::)

Everything was either utterly simple or completely change the world forever, yet I can't find anything he's actually done. A few publications for circuits in the 1970s and a book or two of basically republished data books and he's been coasting on that for decades?

And what's his obsession with PostScript?

Bassman59:
His Active Filter Cookbook is very good.

jpanhalt:

--- Quote from: In Vacuo Veritas on November 06, 2018, 08:01:15 pm ---So I found these articles by some guy that apparently was quite popular years ago in the electronics world: Don Lancaster.

However I have found most of his columns in magazines to be content-free, typo-filled, hyperbolic, self-aggrandizing prattle. A self-appointed "guru"? Really?  ::)

Everything was either utterly simple or completely change the world forever, yet I can't find anything he's actually done. A few publications for circuits in the 1970s and a book or two of basically republished data books and he's been coasting on that for decades?

And what's his obsession with PostScript?

--- End quote ---

To help us understand that perspective, please give links to your last half dozen or so publications.

bd139:
There is no such thing as a guru.

The guy did however produce three excellent books which grace my bookshelf. CMOS, TTL, active filter cookbooks. They have been terribly useful over the years.

EEVblog:
He wrote half a dozen books or so, designed the pioneering TV typewriter project and helped countless people become entrepreneurs and interested in engineering, and I'm not sure how many magazine tutorial articles, but it's a lot. That's a lot more than most people.
His website is full or article, here is just the tutorial page on PIC's:
https://www.tinaja.com/picup01.shtml
How about 87 Hardware Articles:
https://www.tinaja.com/hhsamp1.shtml
Do you know how much work goes into writing just one good tutorial article, let alone 87 of them?

Was he some leading edge design "guru", no, but does that matter?

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