#130) Some New Additions to the Librascope Memories Website

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! Seems like 2015 flew by.

Today, some new photos and a YouTube video were added to the ever growing Librascope Memories website. Their captions are listed below under the section in which they appear.

Photo Album - Advertisements (56) (click here)

• LGP-30 - 1959c

Photo Album - Products (47) (click here)

• LGP-30 Triple Flip Flop Board
• L-2010 - c1961
• Trackball Product Line

Photo Album - Places (22) (click here)

• Librascope Singer Instrumentation - Marina Del Rey
• Librascope Singer Instrumentation - Marina Del Rey (Full)
• For a short story about Singer Instrumentation, click here.

Photo Album - People (56) (click here)

• Carl Sorensen and Don Barton (rear) with their wives at the 1960 Librascope Christmas Party.

Librascope Videos (9) (click here)

• #9) Librascope LGP-30 Computer History - Vintage Vacuum Tube Circuit Boards (click here).

Again, Happy New Year!

Carl

#125) L-2010 Included In New Small Computer History Book

In February, I received a request for information about the Librascope L-2010 Portable General Purpose Digital Computer from Evan Koblentz, a computer historian and technology journalist based at the InfoAge Science Center, in New Jersey. Evan was writing a book about the history of "portable" computing and needed more information about the L-2010, a 1962 desktop computer with one of the first flying head disc memories.  He first learned of the L-2010 on our Librascope Memories website.

Key members of the L-2010 development team, including Roy Bartlome, Grey Stone, and Marty Rudolf all kindly provided Evan with the "behind the scenes" information he needed for his new book. The illustrated 100 page book is titled "Abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile computers", and is available on both his website (click here), and Amazon. The print version is $19.99, and an electronic (PDF) version is $8.00.

This unique history book includes a good variety of innovative computer companies and their products that older engineers will remember, plus a few they probably never heard of. Most will conclude the book provides a good balance between completeness and brevity, which makes it an interesting fast read.

#101) In Memoriam - Stanley Eugene Williams

Judy Williams recently informed us that her husband, Stan, passed away January 6, 2013 at their home in Yuma, AZ. He was 79.

Stan started at Librascope in 1957 and left for OTI in 1964. While at Librascope he was Supervisor of Math Analysis, and was a contributor to the L-2010 Project (see photos of Stan in the November 1962 (p.2) and March 1963 (p.3) Librazettes). Note, Stan was Georgine Archer's boss when she started at Librascope in 1959.

Stan's obituary is published at http://www.forevermissed.com/stanley-eugene-williams#about, where you may leave a tribute.