Oral History of Jon Rubinstein
Oral History of Jon Rubinstein Interviewed by: Dag Spicer Recorded August 15, 2019 Mountain View, CA CHM Reference number: X9139.2020 © 2019 Computer History Museum Oral History of Jon Rubinstein Spicer: Thank you for joining us today, Jon. We’re here today with Jon Rubinstein. It’s August 14th, 2019. Jon, we’re so happy to have you here today. You’ve been a friend of the museum for many years, and thank you for sitting with us today. Rubinstein: Hey, it’s my pleasure. You know, my history at the museum goes back. Dan'l and I were talking about this at dinner. So I don’t think he realized how far the museum goes back, because I got here in the Valley in ’86, and Gordon used to drag me over here to, like, not here but to Moffett Field to, like, haul boxes around when they’d get shipments from the Boston Computer Museum to here. So that must’ve been in, you know, ’87 or ’88, something like that, and-- Spicer: I think that was more around ’96. Is that possible, that-- because I started in ’96 and-- Rubinstein: No. Spicer: --and Gor-- really? Okay. Rubinstein: You know, I mean, I’m pretty-- I don’t know. Mean, maybe I’m confused. I got to the Valley in ’86. That I’m sure of, and I worked at Ardent, was my first job. So, you know, that was from ’86 to ’90, something like that, in ’87. Maybe, yeah, no. Was ’86 to ’90, and I’m pretty sure that in that time frame we were hauling stuff around over there, so..
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