This year, 2009, is the 35th anniversary of the original writing of “Experiments in Digital Electronics” workbook (which I call “Bugbook 0”), Bugbooks I, II, and IIA by Peter Rony. I did not stop with Bugbooks 0, I, II, and IIA. Using an IBM Selectric typewriter, I also wrote the original Bugbooks III, V, and VI. [NOTE: I did not write the chapter on interrupts in Bugbook III; Jon Titus did.]
The objective of this website, blacksburgdeception.com , is to tell my side of the story concerning “Bug Book History”, “Bugbook Story”, “Blacksburg Group”, and the “Blacksburg Continuing Education Series”. I have been given an invitation by a museum curator to do so:
“I am using this website to make invitation to all authors and students involved in the creation of the ‘BugBooks’ and those associated with the Blacksburg Group.”
“It is my hope to organize both an online ‘virtual’ and real museum about the history of microcomputers and Bugbooks’ “You were impacted in some way by this book series, and no doubt you have been instrumental yourself in the digital revolution. ”
. . . . David G. Larsen, curator, Bugbook Computer Museum
I consider the “Bug Book History”, “Bugbook Story”, and “Blacksburg Continuing Education Series” stories all to be an example of a willful attempt at deception concerning the history of the Bugbooks and the Blacksburg Group, both of which originated in Blacksburg, Virginia during the years between 1974 and 1979.
The 4004 microprocessor chip was invented by the Intel Corporation in 1971. The 1970s were the beginning of the microprocessor revolution, and I was active then as a vigorous participant in international microprocessor education.