DEC/Compaq Collection arrives!

Hi Everyone! Just an update on the great DEC/Compaq collection that arrived last week thanks to a generous grant to cover shipping from Compaq. Mike Zahares of TransTech, our North American Van Lines agent, did his usual brilliant job of making sure everything was handled with kid gloves over the 3,000 mile journey! Thanks to the many volunteers who helped in the receiving of these rare artifacts, they now have a permanent home (the artifacts, not the volunteers! Although some volunteers _do_ seem to live here!) :_) Special thanks, therefore, to: Lee Courtney, Bill Pitts, Bobbi and Steve Rabinowitz, Charlie Pefferkorn, Jake Feinler, Mark Schaeffer, Ron Mak, Rob Shaw, Ken Sumrall, Al Kossow, Grant Saviers, Joe Frederik, John C. Green, Sam Ismail, Mike Baxter, Eli Goldberg, Ed Thelen, John Francis, Wayne Chin, Bob Joslin, Thomas J. Ackermann, Mike Zahares, Len Shustek, Mason Brown, Bud Warashina, and LaFarr Stuart. Forgive me if I have forgotten anyone! And History Center staffers Karen Mathews, Wendy-Ann Francis, Jack Hotchkiss, and Chris Garcia all pitched in and made sure the project went off without a hitch. Without all the hundreds of hours of help from these volunteers, who believe so firmly in the preservation of computer history, we could not have done this! Pictures of the arrival are available at: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/latest/ Note: photos of actual machines will be posted at this same URL on or about January 13th so check back then--we are creating a new exhibit on the DEC contributions to computing that opens to the public on that day! Thanks everyone for your support! Hope to see you at the Center or on-line soon... Sincerely, Dag. -- Dag Spicer Curator & Manager of Historical Collections Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing The Computer Museum History Center Building T12-A NASA Ames Research Center Mountain View, CA 94035 Offices: Building T12-A Exhibit Area: Building 126 Tel: +1 650 604 2578 Fax: +1 650 604 2594 E-m: spicer(a)computerhistory.org WWW: http://www.computerhistory.org <spicer(a)tcm.org> PGP: 15E31235 (E6ECDF74 349D1667 260759AD 7D04C178) S/V T12 Read about the latest History Center developments in "CORE," our quarterly on-line newsletter: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/core/1.1/