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Saving History From The Dumpster

These pages are dedicated to preserving a historical record of broadcast equipment. Others are doing an excellent job in recording other aspects of the history of broadcasting. As we find them, we'll add links to them. This site consists of scanned manuals and catalogs of broadcast equipment. In October 2005, the site was changed from hand coded HTML to a wiki so you can now edit pages, add pages, add scans, etc.

Broadcast Equipment

Historic Papers - Papers by the people who made broadcasting possible. A collection of papers on technology. Quite a few early papers on AM, FM, and TV.

Station Histories - Contributed station histories and links to others.

Other Manual Archives

  • Audio Sharing - An archive of audio equipment manuals including some used in broadcast and film.
  • BAMA - Boat Anchor Manual Archive
  • BAMA Mirror
  • BAMA List of Other Sites with free manuals
  • AA4DF manuals for sale with some free. Manuals for consumer, broadcast, communications, and test equipment.
  • AC6V List of ham radio manual suppliers
  • Broadcast Documents - collection of manual photocopies for sale
  • http://www.coutant.org/ - Extensive microphone archive and several other pieces of equipment.
  • DIY Audio Technical Books Online. Extensive collection of tube manuals and books on design and troubleshooting.
  • Nostalgia Air - Antique and vintage radio info
  • Purple Audio Schematic Library - Schematics and manuals for Altec, Ampex, CBS Labs, Datamix, Gates, Langevin, Pultec, RCA, Spectra Sonics, Sony, Telefunken, 3M, UREI
  • eService Info - Service manuals for computers, test equipment, consumer equipment in rar format
  • http://www.ebaman.com/ - Various contributed manuals for electronics, computers, home electronics, motors, etc.
  • PDF Manuals - Tektronix test equipment manuals for sale.
  • Radio Era - Over 150,000 original factory instruction and service manuals from 1915 - 1985
  • Radio Gear Guide - Links to manufacturer provided manual pages.
  • Radio Papers - Manuals and papers from broadcast equipment manufacturers and consultants.
  • Rider's Perpetual Troubleshooters - Receiver schematics and service info for 1920s through 1954.
  • A. G. Tannenbaum - Manuals for sale
  • Technician's File Cabinet - Attempt to bring together in one place links to service and technical information for electronic equipment. Includes sections for consumer audio, pro audio, old radios, ham radio, test equipment, military electronics, and transformers.
  • Teletype Manuals and other info related to Teletype teleprinters.
  • Transcom Corporation has manuals for sale. Manuals include transmitters and exciters
  • Northland Radio has quite a few manuals with copies available for sale and a few free for download

Other Broadcast History Sites

Television

  • The Old CATV Equipment Museum - A place to post photos of ancient cable TV equipment, with appropriate captions.
  • Cartrivision - The first consumer videocasette machine in 1972.
  • Chalk Hill Educational Media has a nice collection of historic radio and television info.
  • DuMont Television Network - In the late 1940's and early 1950's, DuMont was America's fourth television network.
  • Early Television Foundation & Museum in Ohio. Site has nice images of televisions back to 1928. Has images from a Baird mechanical receiver. Lotsa stuff!
  • Farnovision - Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television
  • FCC Television History pages.
  • Narrow Band Television Association - Early television, especially mechanically scanned.
  • NTSC-TV has extensive technical information on the US analog television transmission system and its development.
  • Ed Reitan's Color Television History
  • Television Tape - Discover the magic of television production on tape, as compared to film.
  • historytv.net - Early television images, including 1929 broadcast of Felix the Cat
  • Tech Notes history and biography. Television oriented including history of translators, TV channel 1, studio equipment, telecine, satellite, video recording, cable television, etc. Biographies include Klaus Landsberg, Harry Lubcke, John Logie Baird, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, and Charles Hallinan.
  • tvhistory.tv - The first 75 years of TV
  • Chuck Pharis Video - Chuck has an excellent collection of vintage television broadcast equipment... and radio too!
  • Videotape Systems Theory - Has a nice history and photographs of the development of videotape.

Marine Radio

MilitaryRadio - Descriptions of military radio equipment and networks.

Police Radio

Recording (audio, video, etc.)

  • Audio Engineering Society History Commitee - The AES Historical Committee is an international forum open to all who wish to investigate and learn about the achievements of those pioneers whose innovative ideas and inventions have contributed to audio's rich past. Dedicated to the preservation of over a century of audio history, the Committee is developing a broad-based history of audio engineering and the audio industry. AES membership is encouraged but not required.
  • Audio Engineering Society Oral History Project - Oral history DVDs available for sale.
  • Recording Technology History - Great site hosted by UC San Diego. Traces sound and video recording from tin foil cylinders, plastic disks, magnetic recording, and optical recording. Has info about Webster Chicago. I have one of their wire recorders. Also mentions Harold Lindsay of Ampex. Mr. Lindsay installed the stereo in my parents' home. hh
  • RCA 45 RPM Record Changer

Telephone and Telegraph History

Receiver History

  • National - Communications receivers and early television receivers
  • Philco Radio - History, photos, schematics of stuff from the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company.
  • Regency TR-1 - The first transistor radio! Site includes video of the assembly line building these radios in 1955.
  • transistor.org - Sarah Lowrey's great collection of transistor radios, with photos, articles, restoration procedures, etc.
  • All American Five - The popular five tube radio

Computers, Calculators, Digital Electronics History

  • BitSavers - Saving computer history from the dumpster! They have more than 830,000 pages of scanned computer documents in their archive. Also, links to other historic computer sites.
  • Catweasel is an interesting product that lets you use standard PC drives to read old floppies (all PC-formats (180K up to 1440K), Amiga DD and HD (also 5,25" formats), Atari 9, 10 and 11 sektor disks, Macintosh 720K, 800K, 1440K (DD, GCR, HD), Commodore 1541, 1571, 1581 (C64, C128 and 3,5" C-64 disks), XTRA High density with 2380KByte per disk, Nintendo backup station 1600KB format, Atari 800XL (all MFM formats, FM under developement), Apple IIe disks (Apple DOS 3.3 and up)
  • Computer Conservation Society - Conserving the UK computer heritage.
  • Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - preserves and presents for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such, the Museum plays a unique role in the history of the computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience.
  • Eckert Tapes - Transcript of interview with J. Presper Eckert, one of the developers of the ENIAC, the first all electronic digital computer (with 18,000 vacuum tubes). Computerworld, February 20, 2006
  • Report on the Eniac, developed under the supervision of the Ordnance Department, United States Army. June 1, 1946. Detailed description of the ENIAC.
  • fourmilab.ch - Univac history, Babbage Analytical Engine, and a history of AutoCAD
  • History of Computing Information - Information about the history of computing, assembled by Mike Muuss for your information and edification. Documents from the home of the ENIAC -- The U. S. Army Research Lab .
  • HP Museum - Calculators!
  • History of Computing Information - Information about the history of computing, assembled by Mike Muuss for your information and edification. Documents from the home of the ENIAC -- The U. S. Army Research Lab .
  • A Brief History of the Hard Drive - Nice photo collection starting with the IBM RAMAC drive of 1956, which held 5MB.
  • http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/home.jsp - History of Internet at NSF
  • LED Watches
  • Mouse Site - A history of the mouse and human/machine interface. Excellent info at Stanford University.
  • Old Computers . com - The name says it all... Remember the Altair? The PET, the VIC-20? The PDP-8?
  • Relay Computer - While not strictly historic, it's interesting nonetheless. A computer made with relays (used as gates, flip flops, ALU, etc.).
  • Signetics Write Only Memory
  • Trailing Edge - Archive of software for old DEC machines. Also, the Computer History Simulation Project which simulates the Data General Nova, Eclipse, Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX, GRI Corporation GRI-909, IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, System 3, Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems, Hewlett-Packard 2116, 2100, 21MX, Honeywell H316/H516, MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80, Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21, Scientific Data Systems SDS 940
  • Vintage Calculators . com - A celebration of old calculators showing the evolution from mechanical calculator to pocket electronic calculator.
  • Unix Haters Handbook

Data Communications

Other Historic Sites

  • Heathkit - Revists the Heathkit age which began in the late 1940's and lasted through the early 1990's.
  • Carl and Jerry- The Carl and Jerry stories from Popular Electronics, October 1954 through December 1964
  • Derek's Virtual Slide Rule Gallery - Real nice simulations of slide rules!
  • Einstein Papers Project - The collected papers of Albert Einstein.
  • Mike's Electric Stuff has a nice collection of info on vaccum tubes, Nixies, and more.
  • The Oughtred Society - The Oughtred Society was founded in 1991 by a group of slide rule collectors and is dedicated to the preservation and history of slide rules and other calculating instruments. In the past fourteen years it has evolved to an international organization with members in 22 countries. It is noted for its highly acclaimed Journal of the Oughtred Society,
  • Philbrick Archive - This site is a free non-profit repository of materials from GAP/R George A Philbrick Researches, the company that launched the commercial use of the Operational Amplifier in 1952.
  • Radio Shack Catalogs - Excellent collection of Radio Shack print catalogs from the first 1939 catalog through 2003.
  • Semiconductor Museum - Great collection of photographs and oral histories of the developments of semiconductors. For example, an oral history describes the development of the 2N2222, which was released in 1962 and is still being designed into products today.
  • Tesla Wardenclyffe Project - mission is the preservation and adaptive reuse of Wardenclyffe, the century-old laboratory of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla located in Shoreham, Long Island, New York.
  • http://www.pat2pdf.org/ - Free online conversions of USPTO patent images to pdf for easy viewing. Just supply the patent number.



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Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."

"Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

"It is the beauty of things modest and humble.

"It is the beauty of things unconventional."

(quoted from "WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS," 1994, Leonard Koren)

The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.

  • All things are impermanent
  • All things are imperfect
  • All things are incomplete

(also taken from WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS, 1994, Leonard Koren):

Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:

  • suggestion of natural process
  • irregular
  • intimate
  • unpretentious
  • earthy
  • simple

For more about wabi-sabi, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi.

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