Dumpster Diving at Bell Labs - Saving Communications History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Sometimes the importance of a prototype isn't apparent until years after it is built, tested and then often scrapped. Two items at the Antique Wireless Museum, an early Bell Labs transistor radio prototype from 1951 and an early AT&T cellular telephone evaluation set from 1978, weren't scrapped after successful testing, instead they was rescued from the dumpster and preserved.
AWA Curator Emeritus Ed Gable tells the story of how these two important communication artifacts came to the Antique Wireless Museum.
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Today's junk is tomorrow's treasures, if it weren't for museums and special interest hobbyists much of our history would be gone.
Thank you AWA Wireless
Driving while speaking per CellPhone, as a presentation showing the advantages of the mobile telephony?
Haha, yes, the unintended consequences of this bold new technology had yet to reveal themselves.
I was fortunate to meet Mr. Gable and other members of the AWA about a month before this video was posted, and he gave me a tour of the museum. I mentioned my dad was a Bell Labs MTS, and that he brought home all kinds of goodies from the dumpster. Ed said with a smile, "then you'll be interested in a few things we have here," and he showed me these two items. The AWA is an amazing museum - highly recommended.
I used to work with Bell Labs guys -they were on a whole different level
Nice presentation, Ed.
…and this is another great example as to why I proudly belong to the AWA! Wonderful story - Thank you!
Good they preserved those items.
the streaming mechanism is not the method to use .. it is slow the buffer and you cannot fast forward
Works fine for me. It is like any other YT video - you can scroll forwards and backwards using the bar at the bottom of the video.
On my smartphone or computer the buffering seems at the longest to be two seconds for a shift of 1 hour. Sometimes it is much faster than that. I suspect the variation is due to the load the TH-cam servers are under at the moment. If you're experiencing much longer times, it probably has something to do with the speed of your internet. To get the performance I have all that is needed is a relatively modest 17 megabits per second over Wi-Fi. There are several internet speed tests available on the web, I suggest you test the speed of your connection. Hope this helps.