An IT Legacy Booklet March 2016 IT Legacy Article Compendium 1 INTRODUCTION – LOWELL A. BENSON, EDITOR Write a Book? How about an autobiography? Shortly after the Information Technology (IT) Legacy Committee was formed, Dick Lundgren began to write Legacy articles for the VIP Club newsletter. During the committee’s decade of volunteering, several other committee members have also written Legacy associated newsletter items. This booklet1 is a collection of those VIP Club newsletter articles. The first several articles are the history of the Legacy Committee as we felt our way through the quagmire of gathering documents and hardware artifacts and then cataloging them. So, to some degree, this is both a book and the IT Legacy Committee’s autobiography. This book complements our December 2015 ‘Article for the Month’. That too was a booklet: Measuring Success = Volunteer Hours; recapping a decade with summaries of over 100 on-line IT Legacy articles. I dedicate this document to James 'Rapp' Rapinac who passed away 23 January 2016. Rapp was a steadfast supporter of our legacy initiatives and a good friend. LABenson If you are using Adobe reader; clicking on any section in the table of contents will get you there. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction – Lowell A. Benson, editor ......................................................................................... 1 3 2006, First Year Articles ................................................................................................................. 8 3.1 March 2006 – Richard Lundgren ............................................................................................ 8 3.2 April 2006 – Richard Lundgren ............................................................................................... 8 3.2.1 Support for Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) at the University of Minnesota ................ 8 3.2.2 Email List Compiled for Retirees Interested in Legacy Project ....................................... 8 3.2.3 Interested Group in Arizona ........................................................................................... 9 3.2.4 History Sources besides Retirees – ................................................................................. 9 3.2.5 Legacy History Draft Website – ...................................................................................... 9 3.2.6 Memory Jogger Question ............................................................................................... 9 3.3 May 2006 – Richard Lundgren................................................................................................ 9 3.3.1 A Sexagenarian in the Family ......................................................................................... 9 3.3.2 “Common Roots” with NWA ........................................................................................ 10 3.3.3 Response to Memory Jogger Question ........................................................................ 10 3.4 June 2006 – Richard Lundgren ............................................................................................. 11 3.4.1 Legacy Website Taking Shape ...................................................................................... 11 3.4.2 Legacy Project Represented at VIP Picnic .................................................................... 11 3.4.3 Were You a Movie Star? ............................................................................................... 11 1 We have drawn a line through Universal Resource Locators (URL) that are no longer valid. ©2016, Lowell A. Benson Page 1 of 110 An IT Legacy Booklet March 2016 3.5 July/August 2006 – Richard Lundgren .................................................................................. 12 3.5.1 LM Corporate Legacy Initiative Team to Visit Eagan .................................................... 12 3.5.2 The Eleventh Commandment, almost .......................................................................... 12 3.6 September – Visit from Lockheed Martin Corporate Office ................................................. 13 3.7 October 2006 – Richard Lundgren ........................................................................................ 14 3.7.1 LM Eagan Legacy Presented to the Corporate Office ................................................... 14 3.7.2 More Career Summaries Needed ................................................................................. 14 3.8 November 2006 – Jansen and Lundgren .............................................................................. 14 3.8.1 Project Background – Bernie Jansen ............................................................................. 14 3.8.2 LM Eagan Legacy Website – Progress Continues Admirably ........................................ 15 3.8.3 Other great additions .................................................................................................... 15 3.8.4 Legacy the Website, or Legacy the Book? .................................................................... 15 3.8.5 Legacy of Patents .......................................................................................................... 15 3.9 December 2006 – Richard Lundgren .................................................................................... 16 3.9.1 Legacy of a Centenarian ................................................................................................ 16 3.9.2 Legacy of Legacies ......................................................................................................... 16 3.9.3 LM Alumni Network ...................................................................................................... 17 3.9.4 Something Missing in our Legacy ................................................................................. 18 3.9.5 Legacy of Flops (not ours) ............................................................................................. 18 4 2007, Second Year of Articles ...................................................................................................... 18 4.1 January – Richard Lundgren .................................................................................................. 18 4.1.1 A New Year of Legacy .................................................................................................... 18 4.1.2 It’s a Must-Read. ........................................................................................................... 19 4.1.3 Retro is IN...................................................................................................................... 19 4.1.4 Centenarian Identity Revealed ..................................................................................... 19 4.2 March – Richard Lundgren .................................................................................................... 19 4.2.1 Following the Philosophy of a Proven Leader .............................................................. 19 4.2.2 Legacy after One Year ................................................................................................... 19 4.2.3 Career Summaries Initiative ......................................................................................... 20 4.2.4 Oral Histories ................................................................................................................ 21 4.3 April – Richard Lundgren ...................................................................................................... 21 4.3.1 What are those things? What are they good for? How do they work? ...................... 21 4.3.2 Legacy Website Continues to Expand ........................................................................... 22 4.4 May – Richard Lundgren ....................................................................................................... 22 4.4.1 Legacy of International Programs– Focus on Norway .................................................. 22 4.4.2 Legacy Website Continues to Grow .............................................................................. 23 4.5 June – Richard Lundgren ....................................................................................................... 24 4.5.1 Major Meetings Drive Legacy Project ........................................................................... 24 4.5.2 Recent contributors to Legacy Website ........................................................................ 25 4.5.3 Additions/Corrections Welcome .................................................................................. 25 4.6 July – Richard Lundgren ........................................................................................................ 25 4.6.1 Volunteers Needed to Describe Patents....................................................................... 25 4.6.2 Recent Contributors to Legacy Website ....................................................................... 26 4.6.3 Legacy of International Programs – Focus on the Netherlands .................................... 26 4.7 September – Richard Lundgren ............................................................................................ 28 4.7.1 Good Progress on Patents ............................................................................................ 28 ©2016, Lowell A. Benson Page 2 of 110 An IT Legacy Booklet March 2016 4.7.2 Recent Contributors to Legacy Website ....................................................................... 28 4.7.3 Legacy of International