"HEADING to the CLOUD" - "Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business."

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Photographs taken in the "Bugbook Microcomputer Museum" published in the  "Virginia Tech Business, magazine of the Pamplin College of Business" article
     "HEADING to the CLOUD".       

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Cover of Spring 2015 issue

Dr. Terry R. Rakes, Professor of Business & Director Center for Business Intelligence & Analytic's and Logan Wallace, Senior University Photographer at Virginia Tech worked several hours in the museum taking photographs for the Spring 2015 issue. The session  (3/30/15) was an interesting photo shoot -  

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"Heading up to the Cloud" Virginia Tech BUSINESS MAGAZINE

Dr. Terry Rakes next to 1977 PET computer in the museum. We did not have the Cloud in the museum. The publisher did nice work enhancing the photo.



Two of the many photograph's by Logan were used in the publication.





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Dr. Terry Rakes (L) and David Larsen (R) 

Dr. Terry Rakes (L) and David Larsen (R) museum curator discussing the Apple-1 clone computer display.

You can see why I like this photo with me  - This was very generous of the publisher to use this photo.

Photo credits Logan Wallace - Thank you.



Here is the full article as published.
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The article "HEADING to the CLOUD" is very interesting.  Here is the full story and you can read it by clicking on the image.

"Heading up to the Cloud" Virginia Tech BUSINESS MAGAZINE

The information in this blog is from the  "Virginia Tech Business, magazine of the Pamplin College of Business." Thank you for the nice credit line about the museum in the article.

A big thank you to Sookhan Ho at Virginia Tech  for helping select our museum, making all the photo arrangements and giving permission to use this information. 

David Larsen

The use of these photo's in 45,000 copies of the College of Business publication is great PR for the museum. All of the curators and staff at he museum are very grateful to the VT Pamplin College of Business for selecting our museum as background for the these photos.  A big thank you to Dr. Terry Rakes and Logan Wallace for making the trip over to little town of Floyd, Virginia and our museum.  

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

Virginia Tech College of Business uses Computer Museum for photo session

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Monday was a good day at the museum including the museum being used as a background for pictures in the Spring 2015  Virginia Tech College of  Business Magazine - a story about technology history. Professor Terry Rakes was the subject in the photos and University Photographer Logan Wallace did all the photography.  The session lasted 2 hours and I had a great time telling the history of many of the computers on display. It was also fun reminiscing about my 31 years as a faculty member at Virginia Tech (VT) with both Terry and Logan.  Terry started as a student in 1967 the same year I started my teaching career at VT. Terry ended up with 3 degrees from VT and is still there as a professor in the College of business.

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Dr. Terry R. Rakes

Dr. Terry R. Rakes, Professor of Business & Director Center for Business Intelligence & Analytic's, Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Terry was very interested in  the historical microcomputers and told many stories about how he used various computers during his 48 years starting with the 1977 Radio Shack TRS-80, Commodores and various Apples. Professor Rakes has had a very distinguished career in Information Technology - Take a look here "CLICK" 

Logan Wallace, University Photographer

Logan Wallace, Senior University Photographer at Virginia Tech did the photo session.   It was very interesting to see how a professional photographer produces excellent photos. We had some good discussions during the visit about the museum, technology, old computers and music.

Logan has been a professional photographer for 15 years - Take a look here "CLICK" and see some of her work here "CLICK".

Logan Wallace & Dr. Terry Rakes at  Apple-1

Logan and Terry discussing how they can use the Apple-1 display in some of their photographs. We had a lot of discussion about the Apple-1 and Steve Wozniak who designed this computer while working at the Hewlett Packard (HP).  HP gave all the rights to Wozniak and he along with Steve Jobs went on to start what is now the largest company in the world - Apple Inc.

Logan Wallace , University Photographer

Logan took several hundred photos. This one is Dr. Rakes holding a Radio Shack Micro Color Computer (early 80's vintage)







Short video of Logan in action at the museum "CLICK"

Logan Wallace, University Photographer

Logan was a good director and I am sure she ended up with exactly the photos needed for the College of Business Magazine.

Logan Wallace, at Amateur Radio Station N4USA

Logan was very curious about our amateur radio station in the museum N4USA.
She is also a Bluegrass fan and this developed into and interest in the 5th Annual Bluegrass Festival at our Chantilly Farm on Memorial Day weekend.

David Larsen

Days like this really make my work with the museum interesting. We are getting many special visitors at the museum and of course most patrons are just interested in the displays and history of these old microcomputers. I am much better but still not up to full strenght - this flu has been with me for more then 5 weeks now. 

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

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