Data Communications Technology from Telegraph to Digital Transmission

Don Robert House, Curator Emeritus: Email

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The computer museum collection(s) are currently in storage as we look for funding sources to process the collection(s). Although the majority of these collections are not accessible to the public, there are currently two exhibits in the library displaying items from the collection: the first highlights early portable computers and the second early video game consoles.

Previous update from early 2000… The entire San Diego Computer Museum and North American Data Communications Museum collections have been gifted to San Diego State University Library. This arrangement represents our best hopes to not only preserve these rare and valuable historical resources, but will also allow the public to continue to enjoy them in a proper and appropriate setting. We hope that this gift will allow the work and aspirations of many people over the past twenty-three years to live on in the spirit of our original mission – to preserve, display, and demonstrate computing and data communications history for the enjoyment and education of all. To many of you who have volunteered, worked for and supported the Computer Museum of America, San Diego Computer Museum, and the North American Data Communications Museum, we express our greatest admiration and heartfelt thanks.

Curator Emeritus – Don Robert House Don the gardner; Don with Packard.

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Mission Statement

The North American Data Communications Museum (NADCOMM) is committed to the project of collecting, displaying, and operating the equipment which has powered the communications revolutions of the twentieth century, from telegraphy to digital telephony. The collection, largely donated by committed telecommunications workers and businesses, already encompasses a wide array of machines spanning the entire history of teletype and the transition to contemporary digital modem technology.

NADCOMM’s goal is to counter the present state of communications history, marked by the quick and successive obsolescence of “last year’s models,” by maintaining a working collection of functional equipment tracing the stages through which teletechnology has passed.

Curator Don Robert House and the NADCOMM staff believe that this project involves more than the nostalgia of the technophile. The advances in technology preserved in the NADCOMM collection have shaped not only the present state of technology but economic, social, and cultural history through their use in industry and mass media.

Whether or not we accept the premise that these advances mark the transition of world history into a wholly new postmodern “Information Age,” their impact on contemporary culture makes the unique project of NADCOMM a vital one. Moreover, the fact that equipment is displayed in a functioning state means that the NADCOMM collection remains a valuable resource for hands-on technological training for the communications professional and the interested layperson alike.

Richard House
NADCOMM Public Relations
November 1997

NADCOMM – The North American Communications Museum is a fully integrated department of the San Diego Computer Museum, a Not for Profit, Public Benefit Corporation. Our museum is an educational and scientific museum. Donations are tax deductible under provisions in the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3)

“Donations are deductible as cultural items, we are not a charity. We are an educational and scientific volunteer museum.”

Patrons and Benefactors ——————————————— Companies:
Anritsu Telecom AT&T Teletype Corporation Charles Industries Consultronics, Inc Alcatel USA Excelsus Technologis HADRON Electronic Media	HALCommunications Illinois Bell Telephone Company Pacific Bell Telephone Company Pulsecom Div. of Hubbel Corp. Radio Station WNIB, Chicago Resource Communications Telcordia Technologies ( Previous Bellcore)	TELLABS, Inc. Teltrend, Inc. Testmark Labs Tollgrade Communications, Inc Union Pacific Systems 5/2004 Western Numerical Control

Individual Benefactors:
David F. Alm Roger F. Bindl Warren Brader Exec Director Joseph I. Brown Lorence Brown John Burch Anthony Cacioppo Bill Calk Joan Cannon Kenneth Clinkman Director Robert Cnota Director Marvin Collins Bob Cook Dean Corcoran Michael Daleen John Davis Donald Drake Ed Eheman John Ellis Kent Faust	Larry Fey, Sr Frank Frisch Director Herman Flaminio Rocky Flaminio Thomas Flaminio William Florian Francis O. Frisch Harold Frith Harold Gavello Robert C. Gordon Carter Grabarczyk Barrington Hall Roger L. Harrison Jack Hart Director James B. Harvey Patrick Harvey James Haynes Director Bill Henry Director Edward M. Hickey Director	James L Hill James W Hill John Hoepker Thomas Hoitenga Richard A. House Glenna K. House William R. House George Hutchison Director Fred A. Jamison Steve Kissenger Director John Kleinschmidt Tom Kleinschmidt Director Raymond Kostalek Frederick J. Kiko Edward Kohout Nolan Lee John Leonard Robert T. Liddy Director James Mscintosh Timothy J. Marvin	Donald Merz Milton D. Norstrom Kenneth R. Oakley Michael Optie John Papay Charles Ring Joseph Rizzo Philip Schelinski Director Kevin Schultz Gill Smit Director Ben Stevens Director Al Tipsword Robert Unsworth Michael Vinocur John C. Wilson 5/9/2004 Earl Wirtz James Wright James Zarembski Wallace Murray Roy Norris

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Other Communications Sites:

28KSR teletype Big Crypto Machines British Amateur Radio Teledata Group Brooke’s Cryptography Page (New Feb 2003) Buffalo Central Terminal Teletype Office (New Dec 99) Lauren Museum Canadian Foreign Service ComWeb Museum Cyber Telephone Museum Electronic Cipher Machine (ECM) Mark II Enigma Museum European Telegraph Instruments Evolution of Telegraphic Character Codes 1874-1968 by Eric Fischer 2/2005 FCC Act of 1996 Field-Hell German teletypewriter History of Data Communications

History of Teletype 1911 to 1986 Museum of Telegraph and Scientific Instruments Other Museums – Gordon Bell Other Museums 2 – Gordon Bell Radio Teletype Communications – W7TTY RTTY Loop Homepage Southwest Museum of Engineering Communications and Computation 5/2004 Telephone Collectors Int’l Telecom Digest & Archives Tom Jenning’s Communications Research Tom Jennings on the History of communications code Tribute to the Telephone Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum Western Electric & the Bell System Paper Tape Page at WPS

 

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