He wrote the hardware column in Byte magazine for years. He wrote articles about making just about anything hardware related, from video cards, to printer spoo

He wrote the hardware column in Byte magazine for years. He wrote articles about making just about anything hardware related, from video cards, to printer spoolers (dedicated computer to accept a print job from a general purpose computer and dole it out to the printer), to modems, to simple computers running BASIC (think the forerunner of the Raspberry Pi).