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Core Magazine September 2003 SEPTEMBER 2003 CORE 4.1 A PUBLICATION OF THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM WWW.COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG ANNOUNCING OUR ALPHA PHASE! With the extraordinary efforts and Our new building has been drawing the Be sure to read the report on Museum support of so many people this year, we interest of corporations, attracting many activities. While we’ve been preparing to have reached another major milestone. new volunteers, and allowing trustees, open our great building, our public The Museum initiated its Alpha Phase staff, and volunteers to productively programs have been spectacular. The on June 2 at 1401 N Shoreline Blvd! work together in one environment. Since awesome lectures and events we plan This marks the official opening of a new June, we have moved most of our and support have truly brought to life Visible Storage display area, the collection from offsite storage into the meaning of preserving the stories of dedication of the Hahn Auditorium, and unused portions of the Museum the information age. the beginning of our public presence in building, and we may soon be offering our new home. Yet there’s much more special member tours to explore the The launch of our Alpha Phase is a giant ahead to realize our dream—plans are deep recesses of our great collection. step forward for the Museum. We now already underway for the Museum’s have an unparalleled public presence Beta Phase, and Releases 1.0 and 2.0 Although accomplishments have been that will be built in phases over time over the next several years. great, the economic climate has been along with great programs and access extremely challenging. We need your to the largest collection in the world. It’s exciting to see the opportunities our help in finding people and organizations Help us to grow and let us know how new home has given us. In the new to support us as we grow, and are you enjoy your Museum! Visible Storage, for example, you will looking for volunteers to help in many still find many favorite artifacts from the areas, including development. We also display at Moffett Field. However, we reorganized early this year in now have an entirely new look, labels anticipation of next year’s economic for all of the items, and about double situation, and have consolidated some the number of artifacts in a larger functions. The staff has been JOHN C TOOLE gallery for a more complete tremendous during this difficult time of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO representation of computing history. A change, and you will see some of their great online virtual visible storage can titles have changed. be found at www.computerhistory.org. I know you will be pleased to see how we With our new presence in Mountain are bringing that story to the world. View, you can tangibly see how we are able to grow into a great museum. Yet We also opened our new Hahn our programs take support and Auditorium and multi-purpose room, dedicated people. Please consider named in honor of the Hahn family, our increasing your annual campaign largest donor to date. Eric Hahn is also support and making a capital campaign a trustee who has helped us grow gift. In addition, we have just kicked off dramatically and who served as the first a great corporate membership program chair of the Development Committee in and have created recognition walls for California. This space will become a all to see. For information on the community gathering place for member programs and naming computing history enthusiasts, host opportunities please contact Karen everything from history lectures to Tucker. major events, and allow us to record important events for posterity. COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM September 2003 COREA publication of the Computer History4.1 Museum IN THIS VISION ISSUE TO EXPLORE THE COMPUTING REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE MISSION INSIDE FRONT COVER TO PRESERVE AND PRESENT FOR POSTERITY THE ANNOUNCING OUR ALPHA PHASE! John C Toole ARTIFACTS AND STORIES OF THE INFORMATION AGE 2 COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: ALPHA PHASE Kirsten Tashev EXECUTIVE STAFF INSERT John C Toole Karen (Mathews) Tucker GUIDE TO VISIBLE STORAGE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING, & PR Michael Falarski 6 VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS Michael R Williams 2 THE MCM/70 MICROCOMPUTER & FACILITIES HEAD CURATOR Zbigniew Stachniak Kirsten Tashev DIRECTOR OF COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS 13 RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION BOARD OF TRUSTEES 15 Leonard J Shustek, Chairman Peter Hirshberg PRESERVING HISTORY: THE SDS SIGMA 5 FINDS A NEW HOME VENCRAFT LLC GLOSS.COM 6 Lee Courtney Sally M Abel Charles H (Chuck) House FENWICK & WEST LLP INTEL CONVERGED 24 David L Anderson COMMUNICATIONS GROUP REPORT ON MUSEUM ACTIVITIES SENDMAIL DIALOGIC DIVISION Karen Tucker C Gordon Bell Dave House MICROSOFT CORPORATION Christine Hughes 28 Peggy Burke ACHIEVEMENT PLUS MEMBERS & DONORS 1185 DESIGN John Mashey 15 Lori Crawford CONSULTANT 29 INFINITY CAPITAL LLC UPCOMING EVENTS Ike R Nassi CONTACT INFORMATION Andrea Cunningham FIRETIDE CITIGATE CUNNINGHAM Suhas Patil ON THE BACK COVER William Davidow TUFAN MOHR, DAVIDOW VENTURES MYSTERY ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION Bernard L Peuto Donna Dubinsky CONCORD CONSULTING HANDSPRING F Grant Saviers David Emerson PRIVATE INVESTOR 24 CLARENT CORPORATION John Shoch Eric Hahn ALLOY VENTURES INVENTURES GROUP Stephen L Squires Gardner C Hendrie HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SIGMA PARTNERS Copyright ©2003, Computer History Museum. Pierluigi Zappacosta All rights reserved. The Museum is an independent 501(c)(3) organization, FID #77-0507525. Printed in BOARD OF ADVISORS BACK the USA. Gene Amdahl Burge Jamieson Computer History Museum SIGMA PARTNERS William Aspray 1401 N Shoreline Blvd INDIANA UNIVERSITY Randy Katz Mountain View, CA 94043-1311, USA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA +1 650 810 1010 Robert Broderson BERKELEY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA +1 650 810 1055 (fax) BERKELEY Steve Kirsch PROPEL SOFTWARE CORPORATION Paul Ceruzzi WWW.COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM David Patterson SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Submission guidelines: www.computerhistory.org/core BERKELEY or write [email protected]. Federico Faggin SYNAPTICS James N Porter DISK/TREND Samuel Fuller ANALOG DEVICES Eric Schmidt James Gray GOOGLE MICROSOFT CORPORATION PUBLICATION STAFF Cover: Celebrating the opening of the Alpha Phase of the Computer History Museum at 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View, California! See Karyn Wolfe article on page 2. EDITOR CORE 4.1 PAGE 2 Kirsten Tashev is Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Computer History Museum COMPUTER HISTORY ALPHA PHASE MUSEUM: BY KIRSTEN TASHEV The Museum’s entrance at 1401 N. Shoreline in Mountain View, Calif. The Museum reached a key milestone THE HAHN AUDITORIUM with the opening of its Alpha Phase on The renovations also allowed the June 2, 2003. At an open house Museum to significantly improve its celebration held at the new building, the facilities for ongoing public programs. Museum unveiled a 400-person Hahn The Museum’s popular speaker series Auditorium and meeting space, donor will now be held in the new 400-seat acknowledgment walls, and a 9,000- auditorium. The Hahn Auditorium, square-foot Visible Storage exhibit area. named after major benefactors Elaine The opening was a great success and Hahn and Museum Trustee Eric Hahn, was attended by about 600 people, is equipped with a high quality sound including city officials, Museum and recording system that will allow members, trustees, staff, contractors, Photo by Earnest J. Ray The open house included tours of Visible and guests. The celebration began with Storage and a reception. a ribbon cutting ceremony and presentations by Executive Director & In October 2002, the Museum CEO John C. Toole and Museum purchased its landmark building at trustees, and was followed by tours of 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard in the new Visible Storage exhibit area and Mountain View, Calif. Built in 1994, the a reception. building was state-of-the-art for its time and its open concept design lends itself well to the Museum’s future plans. But, Photo by Earnest J. Ray several key upgrades were necessary to The new Hahn Auditorium was named after transform the building from office to Eric and Elaine Hahn, has a 400-seat capacity, and will serve as a multi-purpose space for museum in compliance with public banquets, receptions, and other events. assembly building codes. Renovations were begun shortly after purchasing the the Museum to produce well-engineered building and included such requirements events and to support its archival as fire walls, mechanical and safety efforts. The Hahn Auditorium also upgrades to accommodate a larger serves as a multi-purpose space, occupancy capacity, and structural allowing the Museum to hold any Photo by Earnest J. Ray upgrades to support both the increased number of institutional and potential After a ribbon cutting ceremony, over 600 occupancy of potential visitors as well rental events, including banquets, guests celebrated the opening of the Museum’s Alpha Phase. as the significant weight of some of the receptions, meetings, etc. This year the Museum’s most historic artifacts. Museum plans to hold the annual Fellow Awards Celebration in the new facility on October 21, 2003. COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM PAGE 3 UNVEILING OF DONOR WALLS outset, the design embraced the Having worked for a little over a year on Also at the opening, the Museum concept of a Visible Storage rather than the future 15,000 square-foot Timeline unveiled a series of donor walls, a full-fledged museum exhibit. Visible of Computing History exhibition including plaques that recognize the Storage—sometimes known in the scheduled to open in two to four years, early Boston and Silicon Valley founders, museum field as Open Storage—has the team had a solid outline of the as well as the current annual donors, become quite popular in the last decade major highlights of computing history corporate members, and capital as a legitimate display technique.
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