Post scanned documents to multiple sites - Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard
Toby Thain
toby at telegraphics.com.au
Sun Oct 29 19:08:00 CDT 2017
On 2017-10-29 7:48 PM, David Collins via cctalk wrote:
> Completely agree. I’m in the process of scanning additional product manuals that haven’t made it into the HP Computer Museum’s site yet.
>
> Any of us with websites could have some reason to stop doing this good work at any time so duplicated info across a few sites is an important risk reduction item!
+100
However I'm only aware of one site that currently accepts scanned
submissions: Internet Archive.
If there are any others please mention.
--Toby
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> David Collins
> HP Computer Museum
>
>> On 30 Oct 2017, at 8:43 am, Ed via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
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