After my meeting with the development team yesterday I just couldn’t sleep, so I found myself sitting at the computer just before 5:00am. The task today is all about wiring more stuff into Vuuch. After brewing the morning wirer I went about adding some
survey stuff. We will use the survey to gage the user community on how they work today. Our objective is to involve users in the design of Vuuch. While I am amazed at the level of functionality I can cut and paste together through applications I find on the web, I also feel a bit vintage. I am by no means a web techie and this project really makes me feel it. My post today was spurred by a mail I got from someone I am having rebuild a
vintage phone my wife found in her mother’s basement.
The day of the find I did a little googling and found someone who not only knew the history but actually restored the phone for us. My kids can’t imagine we used to wait for the dail to spin back… It is amazing how technology has wired a world so old. The phone dates from 1937 – 1945. The reason for the range is that someone had been maintaining/upgrading it over the years. Many of the parts are very rare. What is even more amazing is that in the restoration, all the external cords on the phone were replaced with original cords. Where do you think the cords came from? You’re right if you guessed google. A guy in Texas owns and runs the original machines that made these cords in the 30’s.
