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Hardware Hacker
Don Lancaster’s
Hardware Hacker
Selected reprints — volume II
Radio-Electronics series
Book-on-Demand self-published using the Apple IIe computer
and the LaserWriter NTX. All graphics were done in their
entirety by ProDOS AppleWriter 2.1.
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Hardware Hacker
ISBN: 1-882193-024
Copyright c. 1991 by Don Lancaster and Synergetics
Box 809, Thatcher, AZ 85552 (520) 428-4073
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Hardware Hacker
Introduction
In January of
1987
, I moved my
Hardware Hacker
column over to
Radio Electronics
magazine with its larger circulation and its less
archaic and infinitely less fascist editorial policies. This volume
of reprints begins with the January
1988
column.
I have done a total new layout here, editing and updating when
and where necessary, and combining all of the hard to find
Names and Numbers
together into one master file found at the
end of the volume. A new cross-index is also included.
Naturally, I do use the term "hacker" in its original context,
namely anyone who is genuinely interested in pushing all the
limits of software and hardware and willing to do so in a fully
cooperative, low cost, and sharing network environment.
While our focus is, and continues to be, on the traditional
"stand-alone" electronic circuitry, most anything at all can and
will pop up. I am especially strong on showing you all of the
resources and tools that the others, for one reason or another, go
out of their way to withold from you.
As to content, I go on the assumption that if I am interested
enough in something to get involved with it, then others like
yourself may also be. I refuse to limit myself to traditional or
narrow categories of anything.
These volumes are also an ongoing experiment in
book on
demand
PostScript laser printing. What you have here was
literally beat out on a brick in my back yard. All of the figures,
all of the artwork, and all of the text was done by using the
AppleWriter
word processor on an Apple IIe, and on-demand
printed, one self-collating custom copy at a time, on an Apple
LaserWriter. Binding is via a
Unibind
toaster, and shearing by
way of "borrowed" time on a third party shear.
My ongoing thanks to
Radio Electronics
publisher Larry Steckler
for letting me say what I want to say when and how I want to
say it. To subscribe, call them at
(516) 293-3000
.
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Hardware Hacker
About the Author
As he said in his classic
Incredible Secret Money Machine,
Don
Lancaster writes books. And quests
tinajas.
Microcomputer pioneer and guru Don Lancaster is now the
author of
23
books and countless articles. He is considered by
some to be the father of the personal computer, for his early
ground-breaking work with hacker digital electronics and low
cost video terminal displays. He is considered by others to be
the patron saint of the Walter Mitties of the world. And, he is
considered by yet others to be the . . . er, better skip that one.
His monthly columns include both the
Ask the Guru
and
LaserWriter Corner
over in
Computer Shopper,
and his
Hardware
Hacker
column in
Radio Electronics
magazine.
Some of his other titles include his
CMOS
and million-seller
TTL
Cookbooks, Micro Cookbooks
volumes
I
and
II
,
Enhancing your
Apple
II
, volumes
I
and
II
, the
AppleWriter Cookbook,
the
Active
Filter Cookbook, Apple Assembly Cookbook,
his
Ask the Guru
reprints,
Don Lancaster’s PostScript Secrets,
and his
Intro to
PostScript
video.
Don’s current software offerings include his
PostScript Show and
Tell,
and
PostScript Work in Progress,
plus a few companion disks
for his various books.
Don is the head honcho of
Synergetics,
a new-age design and
consulting firm that specializes in Apple computing, laser
printing,
PostScript
program utilities, electronic prototyping,
book-on-demand publishing, technical writing, and innovative
software design. His avocations include firefighting, cave
exploration, bicycling, and, of course,
tinaja
questing.
Don maintains a no charge voice helpline at
(602) 428-4073
. He
welcomes your calls and letters. Best calling times are
8-5
weekdays,
Mountain Standard Time.
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Hardware Hacker
Table of Contents
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2
3
4
5
6
Automotive electronics
A digital potentiometer
New technical literature
Accessing trade journals
The Santa Claus machine
More on uv curing resins
Using liquid level detectors
Circuits for electronic music
Microprocessor fundamentals
Off-the-shelf superconductors
Understanding Posistors
More on superconductors
Monitors for the Apple IIgs
New video integrated circuits
IBM to Apple communications
Bar code information
Pressure transducer data
Low pressure pneumatics
Battery powered regulators
New video imaging devices
The PostScript language
Telephone ring detectors
Toner cartridge reloading
Unique new A/D converter
Replacement semiconductors
Finding parts sources
Perspective Transforms
More on superconductors
The RS-232 serial interface
Computer memory expansion
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8
9
10
11
12
Telephone line recording
Data access arrangements
Absolute navigation ideas
Ring equivalency numbers
New printed circuit layouts
Remote controls
Infrared receivers
A new A/D converter
New data book resources
Analog computer interfacing
Electronic references
16-bit converter chips
Synchronous inverters
A/D conversion secrets
Apple computing books
Patents and patenting
The LAN of the eighties
Hacking the handicapped
A new pressure transducer
Pressure measurement basics
A cheap color fuser mod
More on the $10 NaviCube
Omnicrom and Kroy Kolor
Television on a RGB monitor
Industrial and trade resources
Digital compass circuits
The Earth’s magnetic field
Measuring magnetic fields
A low-end PostScript driver
Computer model prototypes
more . . .
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