[ih] Where are we preserving these early documents? Re: early networking: "the solution"

[John Day]

So does the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.

More importantly, CBI has the best archival storage facility I have ever seen:  two 600 foot caves, climate controlled, beneath the library.  They aren’t going anywhere. Each must be about 100’ wide and 50’ high.

https://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/10/subterranean-caverns-protect-us-andersen-library-collections/
The subterranean caverns that protect the U's Andersen Library collections
minnpost.com

Remember we lost the HP archives in the Camp wildfire a few years ago. CHM does not have a comparable archive facility.

I have material in both CBI and CHM. Most of it at CBI and more will be going there.

The problem isn’t how many interviews or documents they have but how resilient is their archive to natural disasters.

John

> On Apr 22, 2024, at 12:31, Bob Purvy via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I think that actually, the early history of the Internet is fairly WELL
> preserved. Certainly better than a lot of other things.
> ,
> The Computer History Museum has a whole bunch of lengthy interviews with
> founders, all transcribed neatly. I've written three historical novels now
> (hint: search Amazon for "Albert Cory," my pen name) and had relatively
> little trouble finding the people who knew stuff, or finding the actual
> stuff.
> 
> You can always say there should be more, and it should all be in one place.
> Yeah, and we should all live to age 200, too.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 3:59 AM Dan York via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> In the midst of these truly fascinating discussions (which were mostly
>> before my time as I was a CompSci university student in the late 1980s),
>> this one line in Jack’s great recollection gave me pause:
>> 
>> On Apr 21, 2024, at 6:14 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> My most memorable recollection of that weekend was late on Sunday. Jon had
>> set up the Bakeoff with a "scoring scheme" which gave each participant a
>> number of points for passing each test.   His score rules are here:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NNc9tJTEQsVq-knCCWLeJ3zVrL2Xd25g/view?usp=sharing
>> 
>> Is this document preserved somewhere else beyond someone’s Google Drive?
>> (If not, where is a good place for it?)
>> 
>> It seems like the kind of thing that would be useful for future historians
>> or others interested in how this all came to be. (And Jack, your whole
>> message was great - if you haven’t written that down elsewhere we should
>> collectively figure out how to get that story saved somewhere other than in
>> an email archive!)
>> 
>> Just curious,
>> Dan
>> 
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