Don Lancaster's Free eBooks & More Resources

CMOS  COOKBOOK CMOS was the first popular low cost integrated circuit family that had an amazing new property: It drew ZERO power except when anything changed thus allowing micro power use. CMOS rapidly challenged TTL for hobbyists.           Click on the image to download.

TTL COOKBOOK Well over a million copies in print in several different languages for this highly popular "standard" integrated circuit logic family. Since early computer stores had no products, visitors had to physically climb over a pallet of these to be able to leave. Also available as autographed hard copy.          Click on the image to download.

ACTIVE FILTER COOKBOOK The seventeenth edition of the most popular active filter reference of  all time. Active filters replace inductors and capacitors with very simple opamp circuits. Especially for newer audio and electronic music. This version is the Synergetics Press edition.        Click on the image to download.

TV TYPEWRITER COOKBOOK The original TVT was the opening shot fired in the personal computer revolution . Which led to a dozen different ways of putting letters onto an unmodified tv set. Only to be replaced by dramatically dropping memory prices and bandwidth demands far beyond stock tv's.           Click on the image to download.

INCREDIBLE SECRET MONEY MACHINE  Older "small is beautiful" approach to forming your own tech or craft venture. Well reviewed by the Whole Earth crowd. While portions are now clearly quaint or obsolete, a lot remains highly useful in these days where many home businesses are now emerging as the norm.              Click on the image to download.

RTL  COOKBOOK One of the earliest logic block based IC families that was cheap enough for wide hacker and hobbyist interest. The first "Cookbook" was the aerospace Navy Preferred Circuits Handbook. I stole the name concept as did many others later.       Click on the image to download.

APPLE ASSEMBLY COOKBOOK I Virtually all commercial Apple IIe programs  ran in machine language because it offers utterly overwhelming speed and flexibility. I have split this ebook into two pieces and later did a partial Director's Cut as a demo of our "Linotype Era" restoration services.          Click on the image to download.

APPLE ASSEMBLY COOKBOOK II Virtually all commercial Apple IIe programs  ran in machine language because it offers utterly overwhelming speed and flexibility. I have split this ebook into two pieces and later did a partial Director's Cut as a demo of our "Linotype Era" restoration services.          Click on the image to download.

APPLEWRITER  COOKBOOK Applewriter was a superb word processor that even included a WPL scripting app. This book completely tears apart all the original code, letting you make all sorts of useful modifications on your own. While showing you insider Applewriter secrets          Click on the image to download.

ENHANCING YOUR APPLE VOL I A project book of all sorts of neat upgrades you can provide for your Apple II and IIe. Includes the tearing method, an astoundingly fast and easy method to understand machine language programs.           Click on the image to download.

ENHANCING YOUR APPLE VOL II A second Apple II and IIe project book. includes the sneaky "vaporlock" that lets you mix and map screen modes and a full disassembly script of Applewriter.          Click on the image to download.

CHEAP  VIDEO  COOKBOOK "Cheap video" was an ultra sneaky trick to allow low cost video to appear on even the smallest and simplest of trainers or other low end microcomputers. It let the CPU itself do most of the video screen timing and shared display with other microcomputer activities.            Click on the image to download.

SON OF CHEAP VIDEO Second volume of low cost low end video schemes. First used "scungy" video for as little as $7. Included music displays, hardware for the Heath H8, new custom characters, and similar hacks.           Click on the image to download.

MACHINE LANG PROGRAMMING  I I split our original Micro Cookbook volume II into two ebooks to let them download a lot faster. And later did yet another Director's Cut as a demo of our restoration services.          Click on the image to download.

MACHINE LANG PROGRAMMING II Second half of Micro Cookbook II split    up for faster downloads.       Click on the image to download.

ACTIVE FILTER COOKBOOK The seventeenth edition of by far the most popular active filter reference of all time. Active filters replace conventional inductors and capacitors with simple opamp circuits. Especially for audio and electronic music. This is the Synergetics Press edition.           Click on the image for access.

MICRO  COOKBOOK VOLUME  I Earlier microcomputer fundamentals book has suddenly gained new relevance from the Raspberry Pi and friends. For, after all, fundamentals are fundamentals. Yes, we are working on a free ebook and even a possible Director's cut.            Click on the image for access.

TTL COOKBOOK Well over a million copies in print in several different languages for this highly popular "standard" integrated circuit logic family. Since early computer stores had no products, visitors had to physically climb over a pallet of these to be able to leave. Also available as a free ebook.          Click on the image for access.

I thought I might throw in this highly unusual find here...

VERY RARE NUCLEAR SLIDE RULES Kiss your onager goodbye! With these mint, sealed, and unused cold war nuke calculators. We are convinced we have the only remaining world's supply of these extremely rare superb collectibles. Can't you just picture a Master Sergent out in the open furiously spinning these and "Dang! There goes another one!              Click on the image to access.

DON  LANCASTER  CLASSICS USB An "all we have" archive of our entire website. Includes all available ebooks and classic reprints. Plus great heaping bunches more. Well over 2 Gigabytes of content and routinely updated. Easily searched.              Click on the image to access.

BAJADA "HANGING" CANALS USB The definitive summary of nearly all of our Gila Valley prehistoric bajada hanging canal research, both our own and those from third parties. Includes latest field notes, many hundreds of images, and much, much more.         Click on the image to access.

  ...of nearly all of our earlier papers can be found in this separate directory.

AACB1"Level II" Rework
Applewriter Cookbook and sourcecode
Fasterized Fractal Fern and sourcecode
MLPCI "Level II" Rework and sourcecode
Paleomagnetism & Archaeomagnetism and sourcecode
Poison Ivy in a Spray Can and source
SigForth Intro to PostScript and sourcecode
Superclock Rework
Tearing Method from Enhance I and sourcecode
Thermoluminescence and sourcecode 
TVT Image Rework
Winning the Micro Game and sourcecode

INTRODUCTION TO POSTCRIPT Older classroom style video summarizes the many wonders and capabilities of PostScript. Which is a totally general purpose computer language that is also sometimes rumored to be able to dirty up otherwise clean sheets of paper. Related docs here, here, and here.              Click on the image to watch.

ARA BAJADA "HANGING" CANALS    Don's ARA Presentation at Kartchner    Caverns in January of 2019. A few    more details here and here.          Click on the image to watch.

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My Thesis
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John Dvorak's Pioneering Hardware
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