Podcast: Interview with Chuck House

philmckinney | October 29, 2009

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In this episode of the Killer Innovations podcast I interview Chuck House. Chuck is one of those individuals whose impact we’ve all felt but didn’t immediately realize. With the recent anniversary of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, Chuck turned out to be timely in this interview. Why? He’s the inventor of the early display technology that resulted in Chuck ultimately creating the moon monitor. It was the moon monitor that allowed NASA and the rest of the world see Neil Armstrong step on the moon. Now the interview lasted more than two hours … so this is just a few of the highlights.

Link to the full transcript (PDF)

Tags: bill hewlett, chuck house, david packard, HP, lunar monitor, nasa, phil mckinney

  • Michael Zerman

    Hi again,

    Just another thought RE: “Testing of Site”.

    I downloaded the PDF of the Chuck House interview, being aware of him and some of his prior history.

    After reading the interview transcript, I wondered, rhetorically, whether a slightly more focussed intro to the write-offs could have been produced, as these snippets are used in at least two places on the site to induce downloads of either the podcast or the transcript.

    For example, in place of “In this episode of the Killer Innovations podcast I interview Chuck House. Chuck is one of those individuals whose impact we’ve all felt but didn’t immediately realize….”

    Perhaps a more “grabby” intro would be:

    “I interview Chuck House, inventor of display technology used in moon landings and recipient of HP’s “Medal of Defiance” about travelling in the HP Greyhound TestBench bus, PLUS …”

    Just some thinkings on a warm Sunday morning (35C/95F) in Adelaide, Australia.

    Regards,

    Michael Zerman