I just saw on the Call Apple site that on June 7, 2023, Don Lancaster
passed away at age 83.
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For years, I would weekly go to his tinaja.com website to read his
'What's New' blog and he provided quite a few posts each and every week.
Recently, though, activity had slowed way, way down and on May 30th he
posted this:
A situation has limited our ability to post daily news and reduced
our ability to provide new content. We hope to continue as best we
can and have added three sysops. We are also working on providing new
phone shortcuts.
Meanwhile, please upload as many of our files to the widest possible
range of historical archive preservation sites. as you can.
Backup 128 GB USB copies remain available on our abeja eBay site. Our
best products remain these backups, our autographed active filter
cookbooks, and our nuclear holocaust fashion accessories.
Primary web goals beyond getting caught back up are adding new bajada
canal projects, expanding the field notes, and providing better smart
phone access.
I was always entertained by Don's writing style, and I learned a whole
bunch about laser printers and PostScript from his writings.
His discussion of the Apple II in his Computer Shopper columns was also
one of my favorites.
Hugh Hood
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