Fw: Route 128 book

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sun Apr 7 07:31:28 2002

 I have a copy of Datamation that is dedicated to route 128 and its IT
industries. Unless you already have this source email me.

Lawrence

> This afternoon, while copying IBM 1620 manuals for Al Kossow's Bitsavers
> Project, I met Mr. Alan Earls. He is writing a book on Rt 128, as he
> explains below, and is looking for information. I have invited him to
> visit both the Rhode Island Computer Museum ( www.osfn.org/ricm ) and
> the RetroComputing Society of Rhode Island ( www.osfn.org/rcs ), and
> promised to forward his request for information to friends and
> colleagues. If you can help the fellow, either directly or by
> reference, please contact him.
>
> Clearly, any tech history writer looking for information on Clevite has
> done his homework!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Earls <alanearls_at_attbi.com>
> To: geoff_at_pkworks.com <geoff_at_pkworks.com>
> Date: Saturday, April 06, 2002 4:48 PM
> Subject: RE: Route 128 book
>
>
> Geoff,
>
> Nice to meet you and chat about "oldies" (Mailboxes, Etc. in Franklin).
> As I mentioned I'm finishing up (by May 1) a photo/history book about
> Route 128 and environs in Mass. from roughly the end of WW2 until the
> early 90s. This isn't a scholarly effort. Rather it is an attempt to
> provide a popular book that will capture representative images of the
> "dawn" of high tech -- the post war years with the expanded defense
> budgets and new electronic technology --- through to the recent past.
>
> I'm still trying to locate photos of people, places, and things
> associated with DG, Prime, Wang and many other companies. I would also
> love photos from the Multics project at MIT and some photos of the early
> area semiconductor companies: Clevite, Sylvania, Transitron, etc.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alan Earls
> 508 528 6930
> PLEASE NOTE: Effective immediately, my email address is
> alanearls_at_attbi.com. Please be sure you update your files. Mail
> addressed to my "mediaone" address will no longer be delivered after
> Mar. 15, 2002.
>


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