A very sad story here: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559762-181/hewlett- packard-archives-at-keysight-destroyed Chuck House responded to me re: this sad news with: *Sad on many fronts* *1. Ironic, since HP was almost alone in Silicon Valley for hiring a curator thirty years ago to preserve its history* *2. Ironic, that the curator (and subsequent ones) would not let historians or others have access to this tremendous history* *3. Ironic, that HP is one of the digital electronics pioneers which offered a way to digitize this collection at any point in the last twenty years* *4. Ironic, that a company so big, with such history, would have no sense of the value of what had been accumulated* *5. Ironic, that the Computer History Museum here in town, never tried to get this archive* *Great lessons here* I knew that Chuck had been involved with helping to scan and archive Cisco's history. When I pinged him about that, he wrote me re: his small treatise on this topic: *Preserving our Digital Revolution Heritage: If not you, who? If not now, when? <http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/charles-house/digital-revolution-heritage/paperback/product-22378873.html>* _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg@StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com IEEE Milestone <http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones> Coordinator for Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/> Past Chair / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.CaliforniaConsultants.org> Board Director IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee <http://www.SiliconValleyHistory.com/> Chair