On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on Silicon Valley and it
> talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping
> create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works
> for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on
> tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short
> but nice article.
Who? Gordon Bell? Oh yeah, that guy. He's only considered the Father
of the Mini-computer and is only responsible for most of the DEC PDP
series of machines and the VAX. You know, minor contributions :)
The computer museum they are talking about is The Computer Museum History
Center, which is already quite established.
http://www.computerhistory.org
Gwen Bell (Gordon's wife) is really responsible for founding the museum
back in the early 80s. It started out as the DEC museum and then became a
separate entity.
It doesn't seem the writer did very good research for this article but
then again USA Today has never been known for exemplary journalism :)
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