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

2017-10-31 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
This article has more details about the archive situation and, more important, it has a comment from HP at the end. https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/loss-of-hewlettpackard-archive-a-wakeup-call-for-computer-historians

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

2017-10-31 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
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.

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

2017-10-30 Thread Tom Gardner via cctalk
Apparently some of Hewlett's papers went to Stanford "Two new collections open for research: Helen and Newton Harrison & William Hewlett" http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-collections-unbound/2016/04/two-new-collections-open-research-helen-and-newton Tom -Original Message-

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

2017-10-29 Thread Ed Sharpe via cctalk
Karen Lewis felt Stanford was the place they should go... ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, October 29, 2017 Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: General comment to several earlier replies re: Bitsavers-type efforts. The tragedy here is not that some copies of

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

2017-10-29 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
General comment to several earlier replies re: Bitsavers-type efforts. The tragedy here is not that some copies of uncommon but otherwise extant product documentation were lost. From the description, there were a large number of unique, individual documents created by significant historical

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

2017-10-29 Thread Kevin Parker via cctalk
Sorry wasn't aware of the operational aspects of bitsavers or how stuff finds it's a way in there (although I just had a good read of it all). But having said that, it looks like this collection perished without finding its way to bitsavers so it’s not so much where its stored - it’s the act

Re: Post scanned documents to multiple sites - Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

2017-10-29 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2017-10-29 8:26 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote: > I suggest creating a free github.com account with a > public repository.  This way whenever someone forks or clones the repo > they get a full local copy with one command...”git clone”.   > > Get enough people and you’ll never

Re: Post scanned documents to multiple sites - Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

2017-10-29 Thread Peter Cetinski via cctalk
I suggest creating a free github.com account with a public repository. This way whenever someone forks or clones the repo they get a full local copy with one command...”git clone”. Get enough people and you’ll never worry about losing the archive and it’s all for free. If github goes away

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

2017-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/29/17 4:59 PM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > 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. What a brilliant idea. We could call it "bitsavers"!

Post scanned documents to multiple sites - Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

2017-10-29 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
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

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

2017-10-29 Thread Kevin Parker via cctalk
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

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

2017-10-29 Thread David Collins via cctalk
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