Tag: #history

Connections Museum Seattle

The Connections Museum Seattle, formerly the Herbert H. Warrick Jr. Museum of Communications is a part of The Telecommunications History Group, Inc. and is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. 

The museum features working Panel and Crossbar electromechanical central-office switches. The Connections Museum also has working Step-by-Step and Crossbar PBX equipment as well as antique telephones, switchboards, outside plant displays, including poles, cables, splicing equipment, tools, and other related communications equipment and machines. The Connections Museum also features a cataloged telecommunications reference library, useful for researchers.

https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/

The folks over at the museum make some great YouTube video content fairly often. You should really like it if you are interested in telecommunication history or how things worked .

Please take care of each other.

A tale of two Tutors.

Recently Youtube user Techmoan posted an interesting historical video on an A/V format dubbed the Proto-powerpoint. The player of these film strip/8-track was called the TUTOR 16. This is interesting because this audio/data device reminds me of the one in my collection called the TUTOR 202. Check out the photos! Sadly, I have not found the programs that go with it and I am interested to see how the data was formatted on them. In the mean time I am going to try using this stereo cassette to 8-track adapter. I am guessing it is two tracks, one voice and one “data”.

Wish me luck and take care of each other.