I happen to be on the way to a meeting on Software Preservation, at Conservatoire des Arts & Metiers… Hope for an answer tonight! Best, Pierre ----- Mail original ----- De: "Peggy Kidwell" <kidwellp@si.edu> À: "Pierre MOUNIER-KUHN" <mounier@msh-paris.fr> Envoyé: Jeudi 23 Mars 2017 13:07:46 Objet: RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Recent Posts / Messageries - vintage e.mail How splendid! Do you know what will happen to the original? Best - Peggy Kidwell Curator of Mathematics Address for US Mail: MRC 671, National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 Address for UPS or FedEx: MRC 671, National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution 12th St. and Constitution Ave. Washington, DC 20560 Email: kidwellp@si.edu Telephone: 202-633-3828 -----Original Message----- From: Pierre MOUNIER-KUHN [mailto:mounier@msh-paris.fr] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 8:04 AM To: Kidwell, Peggy <kidwellp@si.edu> Cc: members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Recent Posts / Messageries - vintage e.mail [with attachment…] Hi Peggy, Please find attached a "vintage" electronic mail, exchanged in Dec. 1973 between Len Kleinrock, Vint Cerf and Gerard Le Lann. Hope it adds a few grams of evidence in the therapy against "post-truth"… The words "Message for LeLann" were circled to his attention by his secretary – a division of labor which soon disappeared in R&D network practices, but survived in other professional spheres until the end of the century. The message includes a warning of service interruption (TENEX will go down ...), as Le Lann stresses in his comment (enclosed). Best, Pierre Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn http://koyre.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2183/mounier_kuhn_cv_anglais_2016.compr... ----- Mail transféré -----

De: "Gerard Le_Lann" <gerard.le_lann@inria.fr> À: "Pierre MOUNIER-KUHN" <mounier@msh-paris.fr> Cc: "Claude Ducarouge" <claude.ducarouge@wanadoo.fr>, "Daniel Poirson" <danielgpoirson@gmail.com> Envoyé: Lundi 27 Février 2017 10:48:27 Objet: Re: Messageries

Bonjour,

J'ai retrouvé un exemplaire de print de email Arpanet de 1973, encore lisible (on utilisait des télétypes à papier thermique, qui se voile petit à petit à la lumière), cf. pj. Les quelques autres sont devenus quasi-indéchiffrables lorsqu'on les scanne. J'ai eu le feu vert de V. Cerf et L. Kleinrock pour distribution. Pour info, l'assistante de Vint a cerclé mon nom quand elle m'a remis ce print (avec la plaquette que je devais remettre à Len de la part de Vint). Notez l'existence, à cette époque, de notifications d'interruption de service (TENEX will go down ...) à l'avance. Bien cordialement.

Gérard Le Lann

---------- De: "Kidwell, Peggy" <kidwellp@si.edu> À: members@lists.sigcis.org Envoyé: Vendredi 17 Février 2017 14:41:13 Objet: [SIGCIS-Members] Recent Posts 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). Also, on the book and movie Hidden Figures, two recent blogs might be of interest: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/hidden-figures-and-human-comput... http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/hidden-figures. Best - Peggy Kidwell