15 Dec
2000
15 Dec
'00
6:26 p.m.
In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on Silicon Valley and it
talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
but nice article.
John Keys
15 Dec
15 Dec
4:49 p.m.
Hmmm, no smiley face. Gordon Bell designed several of the PDP series
architectures at Digital. He's something of a computer architecture legend.
He spoke at the 2nd VCF (I got his autograph! :-) and is the director
emeritus I believe of the Computer Museum History Center that is based at
Moffet Field California. His wife Gwen is very active at the museum as well.
--Chuck
At 06:26 PM 12/15/2000 -0600, you wrote:
In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on
Silicon Valley and it
talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
but nice article.
John Keys
5:45 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on
Silicon Valley and it
talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
but nice article.
Who? Gordon Bell? Oh yeah, that guy. He's only considered the Father
of the Mini-computer and is only responsible for most of the DEC PDP
series of machines and the VAX. You know, minor contributions :)
The computer museum they are talking about is The Computer Museum History
Center, which is already quite established.
http://www.computerhistory.org
Gwen Bell (Gordon's wife) is really responsible for founding the museum
back in the early 80s. It started out as the DEC museum and then became a
separate entity.
It doesn't seem the writer did very good research for this article but
then again USA Today has never been known for exemplary journalism :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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6:53 p.m.
In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on Silicon Valley and it
talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
but nice article.
John Keys
When you say "Anyone know this guy", you're joking, RIGHT?
Here. http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/GBell/default.htm
Zane
6:59 p.m.
Is it *the* Gordon Bell of VAX fame?
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In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on Silicon Valley and it
talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
but nice article.
John Keys
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