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

[Bob Purvy]

good point. Disaster-proofing IS important.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> [image: MinnPostLogo1200x657.png]
>
> The subterranean caverns that protect the U's Andersen Library collections
> <https://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/10/subterranean-caverns-protect-us-andersen-library-collections/>
> minnpost.com
> <https://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/10/subterranean-caverns-protect-us-andersen-library-collections/>
>
> <https://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/10/subterranean-caverns-protect-us-andersen-library-collections/>
>
> 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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