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THE DATA GENERAL NOVA Leadership Are Enjoying Many New Oral Histories – We Want to Expand and Broader Public to Work with Us MARCH 2001 CORE 2.1 A PUBLICATION OF THE COMPUTER MUSEUM HISTORY CENTER WWW.COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG PAGE 1 March 2001 FROM IDEAS TO REALITY CA publicationO ofRE The Computer Museum2. Histor1y Center IN THIS MISSION ISSUE TO PRESERVE AND PRESENT FOR POSTERITY THE ARTIFACTS AND STORIES OF THE INFORMATION AGE VISION INSIDE FRONT COVER Thank you for your incredible support changes, all intended to make our develop new mechanisms for data TO EXPLORE THE COMPUTING REVOLUTION AND ITS FROM IDEAS TO REALITY John C Toole last year in so many ways. Due to incredible collection more easily storage and retrieval, in order to make it IMPACT ON THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE everyone’s efforts, we are growing available to everyone. more effective for computer historians, 2 rapidly, and our programs, people, and press, corporations, scientists, and the THE DATA GENERAL NOVA leadership are enjoying many new Oral Histories – We want to expand and broader public to work with us. Dag Spicer successes and facing many new streamline our ability to make, edit, and EXECUTIVE STAFF challenges. Our annual fundraising rapidly distribute oral histories in many Outreach – You will also see a series of 6 John C Toole RECENT DONATIONS TO THE COLLECTION campaign, which is critical to our formats. Our lectures are recorded for programs designed to reach out to a EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO 2 success, is in progress. Please help by posterity, and we have incredible audio variety of audiences and community. We Karen Mathews getting everyone possible involved in and video resources in our archives. We are fortunate to be able to collaborate EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT 7 FROM THE COLLECTION the Museum – it’s your organization! are exploring new methods to capture with our partners in the NASA Research Eleanor Weber Dickman VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT Chris Garcia information and catalog it quickly. Other Park as well as many seasoned & PUBLIC RELATIONS The transition to a new year is a great historians and experts will help in this organizations throughout Silicon Valley 10 opportunity to look at how we are important effort. FOCUS ON PEOPLE: DAVE BABCOCK and the world. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Eleanor Dickman transforming ideas into reality. This 7 issue of CORE highlights several steps Volunteer Programs – Our volunteers Facilities – Until our new building Leonard J Shustek, Chairman Dave House forward, including exciting plans to are absolutely the best; I’ve seen opens, we will retain use of our current VENCRAFT, LLC ALLEGRO NETWORKS 11 CURRENT STAFF & David L Anderson break ground for our new building in everyone from Trustee to student get warehouse space, including the Visible Christine Hughes VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES SENDMAIL 2003, and many significant new engaged in such positive ways. Our Storage Exhibit Area (Building 126), the HIGHWAY 1 C Gordon Bell Steve Kirsch additions to our collection (page 6). Volunteer Steering Committee now site of many receptions and tours. You MICROSOFT CORPORATION PROPEL SOFTWARE CORPORATION 12 REPORT ON MUSEUM ACTIVITIES meets monthly, and we are always will soon see a few changes, including Peggy Burke John Mashey Karen Mathews It’s often easy to let the excitement of a looking for people willing to make new new ceiling tiles, better climate control, 1185 DESIGN SILICON GRAPHICS new building, the camaraderie of events, projects and ideas happen. This year and new exhibits – a facelift for us – so Andrea Cunningham Ike R Nassi 10 CITIGATE CUNNINGHAM and day-to-day tasks overwhelm our you will see a diversity of volunteer you can enjoy more of the depth and CISCO SYSTEMS 15 Donna Dubinsky Suhas Patil NEW BUILDING PLANS awareness of the fundamental ways we projects targeted to our needs and the breadth of the collection. HANDSPRING TUFAN Kirsten Tashev are preserving computing history. I want unique skills of our people. We are also Samuel Fuller Bernard L Peuto ANALOG DEVICES CONCORD CONSULTING to tell you about some of the upcoming putting ideas together for a docent As you can see, there’s a lot to do, 17 advances you will see, saving plans for program, which is so critical to our and each aspect presents exciting Eric Hahn John William Poduska Sr CONTACT INFORMATION INVENTURES GROUP ADVANCED VISUAL SYSTEMS others, such as our Cybermuseum, for a future institution. challenges. But it’s the combination UPCOMING EVENTS Gardner C Hendrie F Grant Saviers 12 future issue: of them all that will make the Museum SIGMA PARTNERS PRIVATE INVESTOR ON THE BACK COVER Exhibits – Our Exhibits Committee is a lasting institution. Please help us Peter Hirshberg John Shoch MYSTERY ITEMS FROM THE COLLECTION Lecture Series – We have extraordinary working hard on strategies for the new in every way you can to turn these Charles H (Chuck) House ALLOY VENTURES lectures this year, and I hope to see building. We will be exploring exhibit visions into reality… your help really INTEL CONVERGED Pierluigi Zappacosta COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, DIGITAL PERSONA everyone there. Watch as we continue design concepts, so look for some makes a difference. DIALOGIC DIVISION to target a variety of major audiences unique displays and experimental with the richest possible content. We techniques in the years to come. There Finally, I hope everyone takes the are also seeking corporate partnerships will be an enormous amount of energy time to ENJOY the diverse, stimulating, Copyright © 2001, The Computer Museum History Center. All rights 15 for these lectures to preserve “behind needed very soon to assemble and and important programs that are now reserved. The Museum is an independent 501 (c) (3) organization, FID# 77-0507525. PO Box 367, Moffett Field, CA 94035. the scenes” stories for generations display our collection creatively for the available. We’re positioned in such an to come. first showcase in our permanent home. exciting and unique time. Become part The Computer Museum History Center We are also taking advantage of of the celebration of computing history, Building T12-A Collections – You often hear about the increasing opportunities to show our even as it continues to unfold. Together Moffett Field, CA 94035 +1 650 604 2579 great new items we have added to our collection in other museums and in we are building a truly outstanding +1 650 604 2594 (fax) collection, but you might not know about temporary exhibits such as Intel’s institution dedicated to preserving our approach to systematic growth. We International Science and the stories and artifacts of the WWW.COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG take stewardship very seriously, and, Engineering Fair (ISEF). information age! thanks to many of you, our collection is expanding. We are building a growing Research – We are continually looking nucleus of people and techniques to for ways to make our artifacts, stories, The Museum seeks technical articles from our readers. support more robust endeavors in and “info objects” more accessible. Article submission guidelines can be located at accession, storage, retrieval, and People already use our resources for www.computerhistory.org/core, or contact Editor Karyn Wolfe availability. This includes major historical research of their own, and this JOHN C TOOLE at the address above. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO warehouse efforts and database trend will continue to grow. We want to Cover: The Data General NOVA Serial Number One See story on page 2 Photo by David Pace, Museum Photo ID #102621784 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 g, MA THE DATA GENERAL TCMHC Photo #102621786 TCMHC Photo #102621785 Photo by Oak Hill Studio, Fitchbur EMC/Data General donated the Data General NOVA NOVA designers Ed deCastro and Ron Gruner NOVA Serial Number One and the NOVA 1200 to the (NOVA 1200) Museum on January 10, 2001. Trustee Sam Fuller (left) accepted the gift on behalf of the Museum DAG SPICER from NOVA designer Ed deCastro (center) and Joel Schwartz, president of the Data General Division of EMC At an official ceremony in Westboro, Sogge implemented circuit and memory and head of manufacturing for the tiny Massachusetts on January 10th of this design—all from a small building in company, says that the very first NOVA year, Serial Number One of the Data Hudson, Mass., that is now a beauty was actually lost before it ever reached General NOVA minicomputer became parlor. its first customer, the University of part of The Computer Museum History Texas. In February of 1969, Newquist Center’s permanent collection. The The original Datamation ad made clear placed the new machine in the machine was donated by EMC, which that volume and low price were key passenger seat of his 1964 Mustang, acquired Data General in 1999, and elements in the NOVA strategy. At half drove to Logan Field, and checked it currently maintains a Data General the price of competitive machines into the cargo department of a major division. (including machines from deCastro’s old airline. Newquist and the group then employer, DEC), DG sold over 300 celebrated the milestone of shipping Announced in late 1968 at the Fall Joint machines in the first year alone at their first product. Unfortunately, due to Computer Conference in San Francisco, about $8,000 each. Museum Trustee a strike, the airline lost the package. this popular minicomputer was widely Sam Fuller, who accepted the donation After a week of fruitless searching by adopted by industry and academia as a of the NOVA on behalf of the Museum, expediters and the airline, DG shipped a simple-to-program, yet powerful machine also sang its praises. “The NOVA was a replacement. At a time when production with an elegant architecture based on a landmark,” explains Fuller, “by being was only two units per month, this 16-bit word length. At a time when such a high performer at such a low setback was painful for the new Honeywell and Digital Equipment price.” Another element, deCastro company.
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