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Time
line: NBS Telephone Land Lines, Wireless
Systems
"Smart Daaf Boys, the Secret
Keepers"
Vine
Street Video Centre, Digital Editing and the
Compression of Audio/Video to optical disks. The
beginings of the InterNet and www.dotcom
webcasting.
VIDEO
MUSIC HALL PERFORMERS & TELEVISION PROGRAMS:
Troy Cory; Rod
Stewart and Alana Stewart; Mel
Carter, Nicolette
Larson; Jackson Browne; Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers, Randy Meisner, (formerly of the
Eagles), James Coburn, Rachel Welch, Joni Mitchell,
Priscilla
Cory-Stubblefield,
Sad
Movies, Billy Hayes,
Dicky Lerner, Victor Dunlop of Saturday Night Live,
Christmas Around the World, The Troy Cory Evening
Show, NBS Broadcasting Network, CBS, Groucho
Marx, NBC, Steve Allen
VIDEO
MUSIC HALL PRODUCERS: Video
Record Albums of America, VRA TelePlay Pictures,
VRA RadioPlay Music, Cinema Prize, Vine Street
Productions, Pat Rooney Productions, Dick Sheehan,
Action in Advertising - Cal Worthington, Jon
Roseman Productions, Warner Bros. Records -
Couchios, Perk's Plus, Gilletee Ultramax, Jim Rose
and Associates, Flash-It Productions, Mark Edwards,
Canyon Sound, Tom Becket Productions, Bohemia Film,
Munich, Hollywood International Pictures, AMITRON,
Morey and Stan Rosenthal, Bob Giraldi
Productions.
Director/Producers:
Bob Giraldi, Gabor
Wagner, Wm. Janovsky, Martin Green, George Vierra,
Ephraim "Red" Schaffer, Richard Greninger, Troy
Cory.
Video/Sound
& Editing Equipment: Canyon
Sound, Amitron, Action, Cinema Prize. Hitachi
Denshi - JVC - Canon Camera's; 2"; 1"; 3/4"; 1/2"
VTR; Film to 2" Quad / Tape to 2" Quad / 2" Quad to
Optical Laser
Disks.
1968 - TeleKey Group
Formed. Cashless Society begins. Signet Credit Card
Systems and NorthStar TeleKey Group formed for
local and international telephonic and Telex
banking transactions. Offices are opened in
Pasadena, Calfornia and in Hollywood, as Signet
Trade Acceptance Group. What is the Relevancy of
the wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet?
-- First network links, set to approve trade credit
exchanges over the telephone, using dial-tone key
pad entry. Main offices, Los Angeles, Switzerland,
Munich.
1968 - "Star Makers."
Feature motion picture. Shot in Germany. Wendell
Corey, Troy Cory, Barbara Valentin, Jean London;
Berlin Wall / East Berlin featured; TeleKey
International monetary Wire transfers
established.
1969 - Birth of the
Internet. ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research
into networking. What is the Relevancy of the
wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet? --
First node at UCLA (Los Angeles) closely followed
by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB
(Santa Barbara) and University of Utah (4
Nodes).
1969 - Richard M.
Nixon: 1969 -
1974.
1969 - "Buster Ladd."
Feature motion picture. Brain Fingerprinting video
tape techniques established in solving
crimes.
1971 - E-mail
invented. People communicate over a network. 15
nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET. E-mail invented - a
program to send messages across a distributed
network. What is the Relevancy of the
wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet? --
E-mail is still one of the main way of inter-person
communication on the Internet
today.
1972 - Computers can
connect more freely and easily. First public
demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines;
Internet-working Working Group (INWG) created to
address need for establishing agreed upon
protocols; What is the Relevancy of the
wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet? --
Telnet specification: Telnet is still a relevant
means of inter-machine connection
today.
1973 - Global
Networking becomes a reality. First international
connections to the ARPANET: University College of
London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment
(Norway) -- Ethernet outlined - this is how local
networks are basically connected today. Internet
ideas started. Gateway architecture sketched on
back of envelope in hotel lobby in San Francisco.
Gateways define how large networks (maybe of
different architecture) can be connected together.
File Transfer Protocol (ftp) specified - how
computers send and receive
data.
1974 - Gerald Ford:
1974 - 1977.
1974 - Packets become
mode of transfer - Transmission Control Program
(TCP) specified. Packet network Intercommunication
- the basis of Internet Communication. Telenet, a
commercial version of ARPANET, opened - the first
public packet data
service.
1975 - 01 First PC
computer. MITS Altair 8800 shown on the cover of
the 1st January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics
was the world's First Minicomputer to Rival
Commercial Models.
1975 - 0916 Wireless
Radio telephone system / US03906166. Inventors:
Martin Cooper, Richard W. Dronsuth, Albert J.
Mikulski, Charles N. Lynk Jr., James J. Mikulski,
John F. Mitchell, Roy A. Richardson, John H.
Sangster. What is the Relevancy of Stubblefield's
wireless telephone Patent and this patent to the
Internet? In the exhibits attached to the Patent,
it affixes the wireless telephone or cell phone or
mobile phone installed in vehicles, ships and
trains, traveling through a field of wired
telephone poles or within cells or "Wi-Fi"
induction "HotSpots", a connection to wired
telephone exchanges are
feasible.
1976 - 0101 Apple
Computer is formed with the introduction of the
Apple I on April Fool's day 1976; Out of the garage
and into the history books, Steve Jobs and Stephen
Wozniak build the first single circuit board PC
complete with video interface and 8K of RAM and a
keyboard.
1976 - 0327
Twenty-year old Bill Gates gives the opening
address at the First Annual World Altair Computer
Convention (WACC) held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
11/1/76 Paul Allen resigns from MITS to join
Microsoft full
time.
1976 - 0327 The
tradename "Microsoft" is registered with the Office
of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. The
application says that the name has been in
continuous use since November 12,
1975.
1976 - Apple
Invented. Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak set up
shop in the garage of Jobs' parents' home in
Cupertino, Calif. to design a computer. Jobs sells
his Volkswagen van and Wozniak sells his
programmable calculator to finance the building of
the first 50 Apple I circuit boards. The company's
first computer, featuring a wooden frame, appeals
mainly to
hobbyists.
1976 - Queen
Elizabeth sends out an e-mail via UNIX. UUCP
(Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs
and distributed with UNIX. What is the Relevancy of
the wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet?
-- UNIX was and still is the main operating system
used by universities and research establishments.
These machines could now ''talk'' over a network.
Networking exposed to many users
worldwide.
1976 - Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak announce the Apple I personal
computer, only $666.66! Shugart introduces the
5.25-inch floppy disk drive at $390. Three computer
magazines arrive: BYTE, Computer Graphics &
Art, and Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer
Calisthenics and Orthodontia; April
Fools!
1976 - Vine Street
Video Centre purchased by Troy Cory, from Ted Mann
theater group, is merged into the Northstar TeleKey
Financial Group. The Stage was formerly used to
produce the popular national syndicated; Groucho
Marx Show and Steve Allen Shows and in the 60s and
70s. What is the Relevancy of a studio to
wired/wireless telephone, television, radio and --
to the Internet?
====Without
the camera, stage productions, and "the software"
created in the studio using film and video tape,
today's VideoCDs, CDs, VHS-tape and DVDs used for
webcasting and for personal use, would be an
impossiblity. The NBS100 and Vine Street editing
team, using the technology developed by Sony, JVC
and Pioneer - transferring signals to tape, then
transferring analog taped images by pitting a
plastic disk by lazer, made MPEG formatting and
program preservation possible. "MPEG formatting is
the operating standard used to make and stream
broadcast quality music and video over the
Internet, via VideoCDs and DVDs," says the
VRAlogo.com MPEG peer
group.
1977 - Vine Street
Stage introduces the methods used to video tape
music videos for television and Laser Disk. 2"
video tape was used. TeleKey's
telex System land-lines, and Vine Street Video
Centre Laser Disk (today's DVD's) production
standards
established.
1977 - A.C. Markkula
joins Apple as partner and chairman when it
incorporates. The company introduces a more
advanced computer called the Apple II that helps
launch the era of desktop
computers.
1977 - Apple Computer
introduces Apple
II.
1977 - Commodore
Business Machines introduces Personal Electronic
Transactor (PET)
computer.
1977 - E-mail takes
off, Internet becomes a reality. Number of hosts
breaks 100. THEORYNET provides electronic mail to
over 100 researchers in computer science (using a
locally developed E-mail system and TELENET for
access to server). Mail specification. First
demonstration of ARPANET/Packet Radio Net/SATNET
operation of Internet protocols over
gateways.
1977 - Jimmy Carter:
1977 - 1981.
1977 - Tandy
Corporation announces TRS-80 Model 1 microcomputer.
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More Wireless
Innovations
1978 - Vine Street
Stage introduces the methods used to video tape
music videos for television, JVC 1/2" VHS Tape and
VTR, and Laser Optic Disk. 2" video tape was used.
Rod Stewart, Jackson Browne, Randy Meisner (The
Eagles), Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers,
Nicolette Larsen, the Troy Cory Show, Priscilla
Cory, Mel Carter, and the Schlitz Beer commercials
starring James Coburn, were all video taped on 1",
using digital editing equipment for special
effects. 3/4" tape was used for post production
editing. TeleKey's
telex System land-lines, and Vine Street Video
Centre Laser Disk (today's DVD's) production
standards
established.
1978 - 1979 - Rod
Stewart, Jackson Browne, Randy Meisner (The
Eagles), Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers,
Nicolette Larsen, the Troy Cory Show, Priscilla
Cory, Mel Carter, and the Schlitz Beer commercials
starring James Coburn, were all video taped on 1",
using digital editing equipment for special
effects. 3/4" tape was used for post production
editing. TeleKey's
telex System land-lines, and Vine Street Video
Centre Laser Disk (today's DVDs) production
standards established.
03
- Center
Story
1979
- Donna
Summer
Buys
Vine Street Video Center -
1979
-- In
mid-1979, when the undisputed Queen of Disco, Donna
Summer, was topping the pop charts with "Hot
Stuff," that's when she decided to own her own
movie studio near her Hancock Park Home. By
December the Studio stage portion of the facilities
was sold. Vine
Street Video moved its research editing and video
optical disks division to Pasadena, Calfornia, near
the Rose Bowl and a short drive from Caltech. The
Pasadena facilities became known as Rosemont Villa
Studios. Vine Street still has the same telephone
number, except for the prefix. (323) 462-1099.
The Stage
was formerly used to produce the popular national
syndicated; Groucho Marx Show and Steve Allen
Shows
1976-1979
- Troy Cory's Vine
Street Studio was the loction of the first
Music Videos produced: Rod Stewart ("If Ya Think
I'm Sexy," and "Blondes Have More Fun;" Alana
Stewart; Nicolette Larson; Jackson Browne; Tom
Petty and the Heart Breakers; Randy Meisner of the
Eagles; Kiss; Joni Mitchell; Rachel Welch; German
singer Manuela; James Coburn (Schlitz Beer
commercial); Ronnie McDonald (McDonalds); Victor
Dunlap; Billy Hayes; Dicky
Lerner;
Priscilla Cory, and Mel
Carter.
-----
It's most famous tentant
was the Peter Marshall owned "Au Petit Cafe," a
most favorite industry meeting place.
1980
- Vine Street Video Center AND Video Music Hall
activities moved to
Rosemont
Villa Studios.
The Pasadena estate
becomes a wireless landline Research Center.
R&R plus, The Guv TV series, NBS100 and China
Expo / U.S.A cultural exchange programs. SOME OF
THE PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
-----
Major Actors and
Actresses, some of whom were unknown at the time of
their performances with Troy Cory, like: The Brooke
Sisters, Joey Adams, Angelica Bridges, Tina
Kincaid, Lori Engel, Brooke Kenvin, Valerie Maddox
and Co-hostess, Priscilla Cory of "the Troy Cory
Evening Show," that aired weekly, on Friday after
Saturday Night Live, on KCP and KTLA.
-----Guest
Stars include: Priscilla Cory, Richard Hatch;
Bruce Davison; Mel Carter, Alan Hale, Sugar Ray
Robinson, Nick Lucas, Sammy Fain, Florence Marly;
John Perkins Barrymore; Jack Foreman; Benny Hill;
Scott Stubblefield, Bob Wills, Jr.; Foster Brooks,
Clint Walker; Wanda Hendrix; Byron Matson; Tiny
Tim; Linda Ronstadt; Dennis Weaver; and the
legendary tribute to Samuel Goldwyn and Hollywood's
Golden Years told by Jack Foreman and Troy
Cory.
-----Rosemont
Studios - R&B Plus: Don Butler, and Troy
Cory. Artists: Madison Cole; Jose Williams; George
Duke; Kenny G; Nona Hendryx; Janice Marie Johnson;
Jeffrey Osborne; Freda Payne; R. J. Reynolds;
Rockwell; Timmy Thomas; Dennis Weaver; Beau
Williams.
----
Bands include: The
California Goodtime Band; (some were members of the
"Bonhomie Baby"; John Mraz; Sam Montelle Stavros;
Smokey Allen Stover; Rick Turner; and Arnold
Martinez, bass guitarist/vocal. The Pheromones;
Bonhomie Baby; West End Boys; Bardowell Philip
Anthony; John Cowsill; Gary Griffin; Randell
Kirsch; Robby Scharf; Mark Ward; Bob Wills Jr.
& his Texas Playboys, featuring, Bob Wills Jr.,
actor, singer, and Sam Butera and the Wildest.
----
Sam Butera; Jack Stevens;
Ron Rice; D'Arcy LaPier; Priscilla Alden; (Troy's
Mother); Lynn Mann; Jackie Corrigan; Nancie White;
Mike Lipman; Thomas Simmons; Larry Leverett; Donna
Jeffries; Judy Henderson; Walter Brown, Ginger
Adams; Pearl Lipman; Alden Stubblefield; Keith
(Whitey) Stubblefield, Rick Wood; Chris Harris;
Dino DeLorean; Keith Stubblefield, Steven
Stubblefield, David Nathan Stubblefield;
PatteBarham, and the now famous legendary tribute
to Samuel Goldwyn and Hollywood's Golden Years told
by Jack Foreman and Troy
Cory.
1981
- "The Guv Series"
and "To Catch a Dream," produced by: Troy Cory.
Executive Producers: Mike Lipman, Josie Cory, with
various On-line Producers / Directors including
video/filmmakers Richard Greninger, Gabor Wagner,
ARD, John Harris, Martin Green, Wm. Janovsky, Gary
Sunkin, and Larry Leverett for Hollywood Beat; Ron
Rice and Tom Meservey (Hawaiian Tropic), and Barry
Seybert, Cinematographer; Computer Editors: Victor
Caballero, Tim Wilcox and Alden Keith
Stubblefield.
1982
- 2004 - TelePlay,
RadioPlay and NBS100 expand: Ambros Seelos,
Josef Bamberger, UFA, Syd Dale, Muff Merfin,
John-Ross Barnard, John Billingham, Mike Harding,
Josie Cory and Sylvester Levy (Fly Robin Fly). The
"hit makers" that produced Troy's first musical
recordings, include Sonny Bono, Art Rupe, Rene
Hall, Bob Sherman and Dick Sherman, (Mary Poppins,
Disney), Bob Roberts - Tall Paul, Tip Tobin,
Dorothy Swafford, Ralph Freed, (1907-1973) brother
of Arthur Freed. Lester Sills and Nat Goodman, the
manager of the Paramours and the Diamonds. Nat
produced Troy's Mercury Records, "Little Pink Toe"
and "Suzy McGregor," the three Bill Medley tracks
on the Sonny & Cher & Friends album "Baby
Don't Go" on Reprise RS 6177 in 1965.
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