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The Mountain View Voice is starting a technology blog under Town Square. Here I can write more frequently than once a month.
Comment here to tell me what you’d like to see covered in the paper and in the blog. I want to hear about hot Mountain View startups, user frustrations with technology and stories about local technology pioneers.
Break with tradition a bit … In addition to the dry talk about what’s going on today, look into the past. Some interesting early (realy early – vacuum tube times) people who set many stages for where we are today. Then there are those companies too – does anyone know anything about the original Sunnyvale Radio Companiy of the 20’s – 30’s? Lee DeForest in Palo Alto. Who was that first guy in SJ who played his phonogrqaph over a low powerer transmitter in his home – or was it his store? Everyone is fascinated with extrodinary people. It adds color. It’s all part of silicon valley. Good luck and I’ll be checking it out.
It’s a great idea to look back as well as forward. So I’m going to add a section on “Mountain View Technology History” to this blog.
The only historical article I’ve written was on Shockley’s lab (http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=1062).
My husband is a trustee of the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org). I’ll have to go rustling through their archives as they have lots of old videos and computer books.