Ever since the Sedona was put back into service after suffering from a broken axle, I’ve put over 30 miles on the bike. How has it been holding up?
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Bell Dashboard 150 Cycling Computer
For those who have been regularly reading my blog, you know that the warm weather doesn’t mean that I’ll dust off the old bike – it rather means I’ll just be riding more often and farther.
Continue reading Bell Dashboard 150 Cycling ComputerLighting the Way: Pinnacle Update (Part I)
Since lugging the 1981 Free Spirit Pinnacle road bike back to school, it’s been a battle with thumbtacks and flat tires. But there has been another problem I’ve been facing: having to ride the bike after dusk…
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Not even one week later, the Pinnacle experiences yet another flat tire!
Continue reading Pinnacle’s Flat #2The Bell System: More than a telephone company
If you asked anyone who the most influential company in the telephony industry was: they would almost all answer with “Bell.” But how did Bell go from being a company formed to support a new invention to a monopoly with shady business practices and a household name, to just another forgotten name? Continue reading The Bell System: More than a telephone company
AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System
The era spawning from the 1950s throughout the 1980s can be considered the golden era of telecommunication. While computers were expanding from items consuming entire rooms to something that could fit on a person’s desk, so was the way we communicate. Televisions went from being a luxury item to being in every home. Telephone systems were not only used for voice, but to transfer data from one location to another almost instantaneously. The inventions and innovations from this period have led to technologies we rely on every day: the internet, satellite television, fiber-optics, cell phones, and et cetera. But it’s often forgotten how we’ve arrived where we are.
Continue reading AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten SystemAn IBM Bell?
We all know that IBM made computers, keyboards, typewriters, and printers. But what about bells and dictation machines? Continue reading An IBM Bell?