Alexander Bell gets patent for Telephone - 3 minutes of history podcast

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Alexander Graham Bell

Here is 3 minutes of how Alexander Bell received his telephone patent. This podcast story is told by Curtis Anderson N4ON curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Podcast made during a visit to the Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum.




Alexander Bell get telephone patent ahead of other inventor by chance.

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Autonetics 1958 transistor computer
Oldest Transistor computer in the world

Curtis Anderson N4ON the story teller for our podcast today is inspecting what is perhaps the very oldest transistor computer in the world. This computer is on display in our museum.

The computer is an Autonetics Recomp 2.

David Larsen

Thank you for the visit Curtis - it was fun to talk about vintage computers and old times during our careers of 30 or more years ago.

           .^{"by David Larsen"  KK4WW Computer Collector Historian} 

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Alexander Bell demonstrates wireless transmission of voice - 2 minutes of history

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Bell demonstrates wireless transmission of voice 4 years after inventing the telephone. Podcast story teller is Curtis Anderson N4ON curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Podcast made during his visit to the Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum in Floyd Virginia.





Alexander Bell demonstrates wireless transmission of voice 4 years after inventing the telephone.

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Curtis Anderson at N4USA
amateur radio station

Curtis Anderson N4ON at the amateur radio station N4USA in our "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum" in Floyd, Virginia. 

Here is an audio description of our N4USA radio station. 

David Larsen

Thank you for the visit Curtis - it was fun to talk about vintage computers, ham radio and old times during our careers of 30 or more years ago.

           .^{"by David Larsen"  KK4WW Computer Collector Historian} 

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Alexander Graham Bell - he was making a hearing aid & instead got the telephone - 90 seconds of history.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Here is 90 seconds of how Alexander Bell invented the telephone while working on a hearing aid for a friend. Podcast story teller is Curtis Anderson N4ON curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Podcast made during his visit to the Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum in Floyd Virginia.




     Bell invents the telephone on way to making hearing device for hard of hearing.

Curtis Anderson N4ON
Curator of the Telephone Museum

Curtis Anderson N4ON  looking at a 1972 Intel "Intellec 4" -- this computer is an  Intel 4004 microprocessor developement system. Not very many of these computers in collections. 

Here is video I made in 2010 - a look inside the Intellec 4 computer.

David Larsen

Thank you for the visit Curtis - it was fun to talk about vintage computers and old times during our careers 30 or more years ago.

           .^{"by David Larsen"  KK4WW Computer Collector Historian} 

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Computer Museum - Curator of Telephone Museum Curtis Anderson visits

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L-R David Larsen KK4WW, Curtis Anderson N4ON

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Curtis Anderson N4ON curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond Virginia made his second visit to our musuem.  We had a great time talking about the vintage computers and sharing stories of our collecting. Curtis made a video of the museum displays and we will post it when available. We made   plans for Curtis to join our display of vintage computers at Frostfest in Richmond Va on February 7th 2015. I invite you to come take a look at the fest.

Crutis inspecting Osborne computer

This display has some great vintage computers, MARK-8,Intellect-4,Heathkit H-8, MMD-1,Byteshop,Sinclair, Osborne, Intel 1972 Development system and more. Listen to the link below for me giving a tour of this display.


Audio description of computers in this cabinet "CLICK"

Autonetics 1958 transistor computer
Oldest Transistor computer in the world

This computer is the 1958 Autonetics Recomp 2 serial number 003 - perhaps the very oldest transistor computer in the world.  I worked the Summer of 1960 at Autonetics on the Minute Man 1 ICBM computer -  what an experience 55 years ago - Golly I must be getting older that was a long time ago.

1916 " How to build your own Spark Gap Transmitter

This is very old 1916 - how to build your own wireless transceiver. Curtis brought this for me to look over. It is how to build your very own Spark Gap transmitter and reciever --- & you don't need a license to operate ( that was operate in 1916 of course).

I will try to publish the whole manuscript here in the future.

PDP- 10 Digital Equipment Corporation

PDP-11/10
I have only one minicomputer in the museum - this gives me a way to compare the old mini's to microcomputers. I had a good number of minicomputers in the museum warehouse but have passed most of them on to other collectors and museums. Give a listen to my description just below.

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Amateur Radio Station N4USA in museum

Amateur Radio station N4USA is operational with beam antenna on the roof. The station works good from museum. Curtis and I also made some radio contact from N4USA at Chantilly Farm.



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During Curtis's visit we had a good time making audio recordings & videos about historic events. A sample is below. Good stuff for history buffs.
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Curtis is curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond VA and below tells a few short stories about Alexander Bell and the invention of the telephone.



 Bell invents the telephone on way to making hearing device for hard of hearing.



  Bell get telephone patent ahead of other inventor by chance.



  Alexander Bell demonstrates wireless transmission of voice 4 years after inventing the telephone.

A short video of history from the Transistor to the Microcomputer by Curtis N4ON
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David Larsen

Thank you for the visit Curtis - it was fun to talk about vintage computers and old times during our careers 30 or more years ago.

           .^{"by David Larsen"  KK4WW Computer Collector Historian} 

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Vintage Computer Museum Visitor shares his views of "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum" 2-15-14

Bugbooks

David Larsen in Bugbook Computer Museum

It was a fun day sharing teaching stories and information about our Museum and Curtis Anderson's "Telephone Museum" in Richmond Virginia.  Our mutual interest began about 35 years ago when  Curtis attended a "Microcomputer Interfacing" Workshop that my colleagues and I were teaching at Virginia Tech. Curtis went on to develop a number of teaching programs in the Richmond VA area for many years after his start with our workshop. He tells about his visit and his use of our early training material for "Microcomputer Instrumentation.


        Curtis Anderson - Curator of the Telephone Museum in Richmond VA  gives his impression of visit to "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum" 2-16-14

                            David interviews Curtis Anderson about the museum


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David -day of visit snow.

The first 10 years of Microcomputers

David G Larsen

Curtis and I spent the day talking about our early days of teaching during the start of the Microcomputer Revolution. We had many of the same experiences and it was a real joy to look at the vintage computers in our museum and reminisce about times past.  Looking back it was really great fun to  have been teaching all during the start of the Microcomputer Revolution at Virginia Tech and in many other countries.
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