From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19532 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2021 04:44:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Dec 2021 04:44:32 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6B0BC9CF55; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 14:44:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93539CD84; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 14:42:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 333139CD84; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 14:42:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp82.iad3a.emailsrvr.com (smtp82.iad3a.emailsrvr.com [173.203.187.82]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19F3A9CD6D for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 14:42:08 +1000 (AEST) X-Auth-ID: halbert@halwitz.org Received: by smtp19.relay.iad3a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: halbert-AT-halwitz.org) with ESMTPSA id 3EEC551 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:42:07 -0500 (EST) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: From: Dan Halbert Message-ID: <261e2007-a199-b436-f881-8a5f821f86ba@halwitz.org> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:42:07 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Classification-ID: 409c04a0-c023-4ada-ad70-c40ceb9782d8-1-1 Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 12/5/21 11:25 PM, Adam Thornton wrote: > I wonder how many of you don't know about Don Lancaster. > > Pioneer in home computing back when that meant something, inventor of > a very low cost 1970s video terminal (the TV Typewriter), tremendously > skilled hacker, brilliant guy. > In 1970, in eighth grade, I learned digital logic from his "RTL Cookbook" and the SWTPC Digital Logic Microlab, from Popular Electronics: https://www.tinaja.com/glib/microlab.pdf, both of which I still have.