<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">Hi Peggy,</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">On the other side of the Atlantic, Gerard Le Lann, who worked at Stanford with Vint Cerf on the Arpanet, has kept several prints of electronic messages, particularly between Vint Cerf and Leonard Kleinrock, dated 1973-1974.  </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">It should be possible, too, to find similar emails that were exchanged on the Cyclades network (which was terminated in 1977), or even earlier on the internal GE time-sharing systems, for example between software developers between Boston and Paris.</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">Best,</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">Pierre</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span><br><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne</span><br><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn</span><br><span style="font-family: "times new roman","new york",times,serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">http://koyre.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2183/mounier_kuhn_cv_anglais_2016.compressed.pdf</span></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Kidwell, Peggy" <kidwellp@si.edu><br><b>À: </b>members@lists.sigcis.org<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 17 Février 2017 14:41:13<br><b>Objet: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] Recent Posts<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">I’m intrigued by recent messages concerning early electronic messages.  Should anyone have examples of such messages and related software, I’d be delighted to consider them for the Smithsonian collections (complementing the materials elsewhere that Janet and others have used).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Also, on the book and movie <i>Hidden Figures</i>, two recent blogs might be of interest:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"><a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/hidden-figures-and-human-computers" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/hidden-figures-and-human-computers">https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/hidden-figures-and-human-computers</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/hidden-figures" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/hidden-figures">http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/hidden-figures</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Best -</span></p><p class="MsoN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