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David Larsen "Bugbook Author" https://tinyurl.com/379dryfr https://tinyurl.com/4wwkawp9 READ TEXT BELOW THIS VIDEO - Location of display - https://computermuseumofamerica.org Microcomputer Blog Site http://www.microcomputermuseum.com Read story next This display is at the "Computer Museum of America" (CMoA) in Roswell, GA. I had a large (45 year effort) collection of pre1980 microcomputer artifacts. The collection was aquired by the CMoA and I am very happy to serve as a Board Member of the CMoA. Website for CMoA and the Blog about my collection is above. A big thank you to Deb Cozzone and Ben Schmidt at the CMoA for creating this display of Bugbooks. Here is a brief summary of the Bugbook story. I taught the “Electronics for Scientist” courses at Virginia Tech (VT) starting in the Fall of 1967. In 1973 Dr.Peter R. Rony audited the courses and did all the experiments and the required work as a regular student would do. He was very serious about learning electronic instrumentation to help with his research projects in the Chemical Engineering department at VT. During end of year Peter and I discussed the lack of good hands teaching material for the new integrated circuit (IC) technology. As a result we talked about the possibility of writing some text books to use in my courses. The result was Peter and I created a set of experiments and authored “Bugbooks” 1 and 2. In 1974 we self published the Bugbooks and started looking for someone to market and publish them. I ended up getting a contract with “ E and L Instruments” in Derby, CT. They did an excellent job of getting the books, computer and digital products from our group to market. In 1975 Jonathan A. Titus a PhD student in my department of chemistry joined our team and helped write “Bugbook 3 – Microcomputer Interfacing” - he is the author of many additionoal books in the series. Jonathan was already a recognized expert on microcomputers. He was credited with being the first one to make it possible for an individual to build their very own microcomputer. He published a construction article in the “Radio Electronics” July 1974 magazine “Build the Mark-8 Your Personal Minicomputer” . For many this was the start of the personal microcomputer revolution. Jonathan received his PhD a year or so later in my department of Chemistry. Jonathan was an excellent digital designer and designed several microcomputer systems that were marketed by our team. Dr. Christopher A Titus was my laboratory assistant for the Electronics for Scientist courses while working on his graduate degree in Chemistry. Christopher joined our team in about 1976 and was our software expert and consultant. He was an author in many of the books published by our team. The team wanted to expand our book series to include additional topics that we were not expert in and did not have the time to write. The team was known as "The Blacksburg Group" . To expand our book series we started the “Blacksburg Continuing Education” series of books. In this new project we contracted with about 25 experts/writers on various electronic subjects. With this outreach of new book topics I contracted with Howard W Sams to be our publisher. Sams, a very well known technical publisher was founded in 1946 by Howard W Sams. Our “Blacksburg” series became a huge success. When we finished our work on the “Blacksburg Continuing Education” series of books in about 1983 the total books published was 70 (best info) and 2 million in print (best info). Many of the books were translated in Italian, German and Japanese. As a result of the popularity of the books we had the opportunity to teach several hundred computer automation workshops in many countries – including Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Italy, Guyana, Switzerland and even in China. I continued teaching these workshops into the early 1990's. Great fun and wonderful times. This is a very brief history of the “Bugbooks”. Summary: The Bugbook authors: David G Larsen Dr. Peter R Rony Dr. Jonathan A. Titus Dr. Christopher A Titus First Books published 1974 “Bugbooks 1 and 2 ” Number of books published 70 (best info) Number of books in print 2 million (best info) Translations: German Japanese Italian Some Bugbook History information at http://www.bugbookcomputermuseum.com https://tinyurl.com/4wwkawp9 Subscribe to my channel http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=lcfgroup David has enjoyed developing many Businesses - his "LCF Group" has been in continuous business for the past 55 years. The LCF Group has developed and maintains the following web sites. http://www.virginiamountainland.com our land for sale by owner web site http://www.lcfvideo.com LCF Video's about 550 videos http://www.fairs.org About "Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service" FAIRS Your video editor, producer, and videographer "David" https://www.kk4ww.com http://www.microcomputermuseum.com David Larsen blogs about his interest in Historical Microcomputers