[SADXA] Fwd: {Collins} A note to Collins museum- Tubbs fire consumed archives of Hewlett & Packard

[Richard Solomon]

Another example of how big business
bows to the almighty dollar.

Very sad, a great loss.

73, Dick, W1KSZ



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From: Ed Sharpe via Collins <collins at listserve.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:05 PM
Subject: {Collins} A note to Collins museum- Tubbs fire consumed archives
of Hewlett & Packard
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The  Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and
David Packard,  the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company
in a
Palo Alto  garage with $538 in cash.
More  than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches
and other  items were contained in one of two modular buildings that burned
to
the ground  at the Fountaingrove headquarters of Keysight Technologies.
Keysight, the  world’s largest electronics measurement company, traces its
roots to HP and  acquired the archives in 2014 when its business was split
from
Agilent  Technologies — itself an HP spinoff.

http://bit.ly/2yd6Z2G
(My added note)   And.... this is  why I continue to stress  multiple
caches of  copies/scans of historical material... and sad... as in this
case
here is  someone that  could have footed the bill and not missed the  money
to
do it.
Ed#  Archivist  for SMECC
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