[1] Don graduated from North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
[2] He received a BSEE degree from Lafayette College in 1961, and a MSEE from Arizona State University in 1967.
[1] The design was accepted by early microcomputer users as it used an ordinary television set for the display and could be built for around USD$200 in parts, at a time when commercial terminals were selling for over $1,000.
Lancaster produced his self-published books by re-purposing the game port of an Apple II to transfer PostScript code directly to a laser printer, rather than using a Macintosh running PageMaker.
This enabled continuous book production using an inexpensive Apple II, rather than tying up an expensive Macintosh until the print run was complete.