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| From | "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall |
| Date | 2015-09-02 17:55 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <d4pd40Fods5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <b087f317-1f0f-41be-a489-ffb0b9dc08a2@googlegroups.com> <1245487726462913850.589026peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1509021621230.7723@darkstar.example.org> <756ca5e6-3732-469f-89fc-a8c7f8898fea@googlegroups.com> |
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message news:756ca5e6-3732-469f-89fc-a8c7f8898fea@googlegroups.com... On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 4:24:48 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote: > I've said it about books on amateur radio, when some technology is > introduced, there is a lot written on the subject, but decades later when > such things are common, it's often a passing reference. You need the > early source to get full insight, and I can think of a few cases in the > past 20 years where someone has gone back to those original works and done > some interesting work in the current. I posted here references to neat books recently added to bitsavers; one was a book on the S/3 which included a lot of references to tab equipment and accounting; the other was a 1944 radio handbook. I'm not into radio, but I think someone who was would grab the 1944 book. It even had a section on TV, though the scan size and audio frequencies were changed shortly after the book came out. Pople who owned early TV sets had to get a modfication, though the manufacturers usually sent someone out at no charge to maintain goodwill (and the fact that those early sets were extremely expensive.) As an aside, TV was _not_ something that took the country by surprise. Several cities had regularly scheduled broadcasting under experimental licenses in 1940, but further development was interupted by the war. There were numerous newspaper articles during the war years about the future of TV. Schools were being set up to train people to be TV technicians. Once the war ended, sets were sold as fast as they could be made, especially when they gained experience to lower the price. Even in the early postwar years with crude programming and technology, advertisers discovered TV advertising was very profitable. Just like when movies converted from silent to sound, when broadcast entertainment switched from radio to TV, a lot of once-hot radio celebrities found themselves out of work in the TV era. Their radio schtick just didn't play well on TV.
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