Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

[Kevin Parker]

Very sad when I hear stories like this and I'm not precluding the people who were directly affected by this - I'm located in Australia and while bushfires are a fact of life here, they're still devastating.

Just going to toss an idea out there - have no idea how this might work but thought I'd toss it out there.

It seems with the internet that crowd-sourcing is way of resourcing things. Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply this concept to the scanning and archiving and retention of any paper based repositories that still exist. I'll call it crowd-scanning for the time being.


Kevin Parker


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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ed via cctalk
Sent: Monday, 30 October 2017 08:44
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Subject: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

 
The Tubbs fire  consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard, the tech  pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage with  $538 in cash. 
More  than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches and other  items were contained in one of two modular buildings that burned to the ground  at the Fountaingrove headquarters of Keysight Technologies. 
Keysight, the  world’s largest electronics measurement company, traces its roots to HP and  acquired the archives in 2014 when its business was split from Agilent  Technologies — itself an HP spinoff. 

http://bit.ly/2yd6Z2G 
(My added note)   And.... this is  why I continue to stress  multiple 
caches of  copies/scans of historical material... and sad... as in this  case here is  someone that  could have footed the bill and not missed the  money to do it.  
Ed#  Archivist  for SMECC