Thank you both for those links to obituaries and to articles about the origins of that museum. For what it's worth, my forthcoming book (with MIT Press later this year) contains a lengthy chapter about computer museums and their challenges to to research and assemble, restore and preserve, commemorate and exhibit what we know about computing. The Linnean taxonomy of computers proposed by Gordon Bell plays an important role in that discussion… Peter Krapp Computing Legacies: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549837/computing-legacies/
On May 23, 2024, at 09:41, Len Shustek via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
At 08:17 AM 5/23/2024, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members wrote:
Among other accomplishments, Gordon was an early supporter of the Computer History Museum, which started at a DEC building, and began with pieces of the Whirlwind computer rescued from scrap (correct me if this is wrong).
That is correct. Articles about the history of the history museum -- both its incarnations -- are here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://computerhistory.org/blog/computer-histor... https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://computerhistory.org/blog/len-shustek-a-m... https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/atchm/docu... https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publica... _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis... and you can change your subscription options at https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sig...