Dear friends of computer history! I am delighted to announce today the world premiere of the Museum's new online Search system. It is available here: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/ The new system was nearly a year in development and now provides: Up to date access to all cataloged CHM artifact records (including a 'record counter' that shows how many objects are currently in the database). A Media browser with new picture viewer Direct access to 7 CHM Special Collections (Oral Histories, Computer Chess, Fortran, PDP-1, Marketing and IBM Stretch) Predefined web addresses for every CHM artifact allowing external websites (like Wikipedia) to directly link to our collection Easy access to archival finding aids Dublin Core Metadata support It's very simple to use. Just enter a keyword! To narrow down your searches, add the following keywords to your search term as appropriate: text physical object software still image moving image For e.g., for a list of Apple software, you would enter: "Apple software" Here are three of sample records as examples: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102638272 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646280 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102658233 I hope you will all enjoy using this new system and that it will truly be a useful resource for your research activities. Please let me know what you think--your feedback is of great importance to us. All the best and... Enjoy! Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator The Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 U.S.A. Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Skype: dag_spicer "Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells