Wanting to pin down the history of Cyberamics in citations. Trying to find three major things, and here is my cursory glance best effort so far, I’d like to see someone find earlier mentions than me:
Earliest photo? This?
This is January 18th, 1979, featuring Concord’s Jasper. This was at Fantasy Forest and just two weeks before the move from Moffett Drive to 10060 Bubb Road for the corporate headquarters.
Earliest mention of ‘Cybearmics’? This
December 4th, 1978, refers to Kooser’s stage controller as ‘Big C’s Cyberamics Center’.
Earliest public mention of ‘Cyberamics’? This?
April of 1979, said by Mike Hatcher.
Earliest mention of Cyberamics mass-producibility? This sorta, and this.
First one, January 8, 1978, states Pizza Time Theatre has plans to do many stores, and if need be will turn Fantasy Forest into the R&D arm to allow mass-producing to take over.
The second one on May 15th, 1979, Gene Landrum states the move from the Mountain View office to the Cupertino one is for its manufacturing center. They say the first two stores were ‘prototypes’ and that Cyberamics are ‘minor changes’ to the mechanics.
SIDEQUEST: Date range of ‘3D Computer-Controlled Cartoon Characters’
This photo has always eluded me cause its undated, until doing this research I noticed this familiar phrase in the text.
Current range is (April 1979)-(December 1979), so this photo was definitely in that range.
