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 > > David Collins > HP Computer Museum > >> On 30 Oct 2017, at 8:43 am, Ed via cctalk <[email protected]> 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 >
