2 Nov
2007
2 Nov
'07
2:29 p.m.
I am pleased to announce that Hewlett Packard and The Computer History Museum have as
of today entered into an agreement allowing CHM to preserve and redistribute all of the
software (objects and sources) along with documentation for the 21xx/1000 family of
computers for non-commercial use.
The software has been explicitly licensed for use both on simulators and real hardware.
HP has also donated a large collection of manuals and software distributions, primarily
from the late 80s and forward, which complements what
CHM already had from earlier software
releases.
CHM will continue to be actively involved in trying to find all of the earlier software
releases which weren't in the HP archives.
2 Nov
2 Nov
2:34 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
I am pleased to announce that Hewlett Packard and The
Computer History
Museum have as
of today entered into an agreement allowing CHM to preserve and
redistribute all of the
software (objects and sources) along with documentation for the
21xx/1000 family of
computers for non-commercial use.
The software has been explicitly licensed for use both on simulators and
real hardware.
HP has also donated a large collection of manuals and software
distributions, primarily
from the late 80s and forward, which complements what CHM already had
from earlier software
releases.
CHM will continue to be actively involved in trying to find all of the
earlier software
releases which weren't in the HP archives.
Woah. That is a huge deal! I can't imagine the amount of time &
patience that went into making this agreement.
Good work!
Doc
3:29 p.m.
--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
I am pleased to announce that Hewlett Packard and
The Computer History Museum have as
of today entered into an agreement allowing CHM to
preserve and redistribute all of the
software (objects and sources) along with
documentation for the 21xx/1000 family of
computers for non-commercial use.
Al, this is great news! Congratualations to you
and anyone else at CHM who was involved in this.
I hope this becomes an example for other companies,
for example DG/EMC.
--Bill
4:54 p.m.
On 2 Nov 2007 at 14:29, Al Kossow wrote:
I am pleased to announce that Hewlett Packard and The
Computer History
Museum have as of today entered into an agreement allowing CHM to
preserve and redistribute all of the software (objects and sources)
along with documentation for the 21xx/1000 family of computers for
non-commercial use.
Superb. Heartfelt thanks, Al, to you and to the CHM for all of the hard
work that has made this possible.
-- Dave
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