[SIGCIS-Members] Help on Coffee and Computing

Tue Jul 21 10:06:53 PDT 2020

   Hi Jim,
great subject for research. It might also be worth looking into the  
many patents meant to fight coffee (and other beverages) as the bane  
of the keyboard.
   All the best
   Friedrich

Quoting Henry E Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu>:

> Hi Jim,
> You might want to browse through the Doug Menuez photography  
> collection at Stanford.  About 10,000 of the images are online (out  
> of about 200-250,000).  He captures quite a bit of the culture in  
> companies like Apple, NeXT, Adobe, etc., mostly 1980s.  I am sure  
> you will find many coffee mugs there!
> Here is a link to the online exhibit created from the images in this  
> collection:
> https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez
> Hit "browse" to see a selection of companies represented.
> Henry
>
> Henry Lowood, PhD
> Harold C. Hohbach Curator, History of Science & Technology  
> Collections; Curator, Film & Media Collections
> HASG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
> Stanford University Libraries
> Stanford CA 94305-6066
> PH: 650-723-4602
> EM: lowood at stanford.edu
>
> From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Kidwell, Peggy
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>
> I would add to Alana's fine list:
>
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1867086 (a  
> photograph)
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/NMAH.AC.0324_ref460  
> (a cartoon - though not much coffee shown)
>
> Best -
>
> Peggy Kidwell
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> Hi Jim,
>
> The National Museum of American History has some mugs in the  
> computing collection featuring company names. Some include fun  
> little sayings. See links below for a few examples. I'm not sure I  
> can elaborate on coffee culture though! We are still working  
> remotely but if you have specific questions about any of these or  
> other objects I'd be happy to do whatever digging I can do from  
> afar, for the time being.
>
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1281495<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fsearch%2Fobject%2Fnmah_1281495&data=02%7C01%7Ckidwellp%40si.edu%7Cfa6254d427c84c4a6fad08d82ce6870e%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637308715955058625&sdata=2yjToxvJg097T7YaIu%2F3SkDRq6UBv%2BYIWinjh68PGqQ%3D&reserved=0>
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1281135<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fsearch%2Fobject%2Fnmah_1281135&data=02%7C01%7Ckidwellp%40si.edu%7Cfa6254d427c84c4a6fad08d82ce6870e%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637308715955058625&sdata=LsCiXe%2FDc9dbbydoHCscFyN8iDNTLcnhL96cvFJ4QHU%3D&reserved=0>
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1281136<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fsearch%2Fobject%2Fnmah_1281136&data=02%7C01%7Ckidwellp%40si.edu%7Cfa6254d427c84c4a6fad08d82ce6870e%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637308715955068616&sdata=rckja4adawNZnJdJu1f10AplLLTq4zBHSuX1lRVuMsY%3D&reserved=0>
> https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1281137<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fsearch%2Fobject%2Fnmah_1281137&data=02%7C01%7Ckidwellp%40si.edu%7Cfa6254d427c84c4a6fad08d82ce6870e%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637308715955068616&sdata=if2AKMU52J9PU8oO22NTlBtJJeIDyz%2FYkgwlWyWOtRg%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Be well,
> Alana
>
>
> Alana Staiti (she/her/hers)
>
> Curator of the History of Computers and Information Sciences
>
> National Museum of American History
>
> Smithsonian Institution
>
> staitia at si.edu<mailto:staitia at si.edu>
>
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> The IT community of users, programmers, vendors, etc have for  
> decades had a reputation for being extensive consumers of coffee. In  
> some parts of the IT ecosystem, especially among those who work odd  
> hours, such as programmers, computer operators, and vendor field  
> engineers.  I am studying the corporate ephemera of this industry  
> and its cultural attachments, such as coffee cups and what they tell  
> us about computing.  Do any of you have any information, ephemera,  
> or sources and citations on this specific issue of coffee and  
> computing?  I can get many industry folks, such as IBM retirees, to  
> wax eloquently on the subject in their private FB accounts, but that  
> is not enough.  Corporate culture is tough to study.  Thanks in  
> advance for your help.  Jim
> --
> James W. Cortada
> Senior Research Fellow
> Charles Babbage Institute
> University of Minnesota
> jcortada at umn.edu<mailto:jcortada at umn.edu>
> 608-274-6382

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