Dear Colleagues, Wanted to make people aware of a public history project/partnership to document and broadly disseminate the rich history of computing in the State of Minnesota (Engineering Research Associates, Remington Rand, Sperry-Univac, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, Cray Research, Lawson Software, IBM Rochester, etc.). Over the past year the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), the UMN-HSTM Program, the Minnesota Historical Society (which provided funding through a competitive grant program for MN history), Twin Cities Pubic Television (TPT), the Dakota County Historical Society and Lawshe Museum (DCHS/LM), the Minnesota High Tech Association, and industry volunteers (Univac's VIP Club of retirees) partnered to produce a Minnesota computing history website (and to lay the groundwork for an upcoming documentary). https://www.mncomputinghistory.com The site has interactive time-lines, film/video footage, many photos, historical essays, etc. The project's aim was two-fold from the start, to produce this website, and to launch the effort for a major public television documentary on the topic. On the latter, many dozens of hours of video interviews with more than 30 pioneers (and historian Tom Misa, who authored *Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry*) were conducted. [Tom was an important early advisor and a major inspiration for this project.] The final stage of fundraising is happening now to create the television documentary. On this one-year (phase 1) project, Univ. of Minnesota HSTM ABD student Elizabeth Semler was the chief researcher and project manager, HSTM Post-doc Jonathan Clemons a consulting advisor, and CBI Archivist Amanda Wick the primary archivist advisor. I served as the primary historian advisor. This project represents CBI's efforts to boost our already strong commitment to public history and outreach, a commitment extended by CBI's recent hire of longtime science museum curator Dr. Juliet Burba (most recently Director of Collections at the Bakken Museum) as our Outreach Historian and Administrator. On a related note, we are grateful to the (Sperry-Univac) VIP Club's help, and to Lockheed for donating extensive Sperry-Univac archives to CBI (and important Sperry-Univac artifacts and photographs to the DCHS/Lawshe Museum). Best, Jeff Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax