[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit; CNC history sources

[Courtney, Lee]

Hi Paul,

Great idea. I hadn't thought about pushing such raw data put onto the
site, but makes sense to expose to the network effect of the web.

Does the SCC/SPG Plone site get indexed by the Museum's search appliance
(I didn't even know we had one!) and crawled by external search engines.
I just don't know if that material is opaque to the outside world. If it
is then we should make it visible. 

I'll post the detailed list of Ed's material to the Plone site in the
next couple days. Whats a good format - PDF, text, Excel? 

Regards,

Lee Courtney

Product Line Manager - Linux for Consumer Devices

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul McJones [mailto:paul at mcjones.org] 
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:41 AM
> To: Courtney, Lee
> Cc: Al Kossow; Barry Boehm; scc_active at computerhistory.org; 
> Steve at mail.computerhistory.org; Jasik
> Subject: Re: [SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit; CNC 
> history sources
> 
> Lee,
> 
> I am very much in agreement about the importance of proactive 
> collection of professional papers (I happen to be working on 
> such an effort as we speak).
> 
> It would also be great if documents like your attached 
> "Material on CP-6 for the Computer History Museum.pdf" were 
> available on the Museum's web site, so they would be indexed 
> by the internal search appliance and by the public web search 
> engines. I was interested to see that in addition to the CP-V 
> work, Ed also donated materials on JOSS, SHARE OS, etc. (in 
> Lot 2). I put together a similar informal "finding aid" for 
> the donation of Mark Halpern (see 
> http://www.mcjones.org/halpern/catalog.html), but it's not 
> clear to me if it will ever be put online at the Museum.
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> Courtney, Lee wrote:
> > Personal papers by a significant practitioner *OR* that offer a 
> > historically significant view into computing history should 
> always be 
> > accepted. I think we should be more proactive in that area. A great 
> > example are Ed Bryan's personal papers that the Museum accepted a 
> > couple years ago (see attached). Ed was an early employee 
> of SDS, and 
> > managed system software development at SDS, thru the Xerox 
> > acquisition, and up thru the Honeywell era. While Ed was a 
> competent 
> > manager and made significant technical contributions to mainframe 
> > operating system technology, I doubt if anyone else here 
> has heard of 
> > him. Yet he designed a significant mainframe operating 
> system (CP-V) 
> > and his personal papers offer a unique and extremely valuable 
> > chronology of mainframe OS development from the mid-1960s 
> up thru the later 1980s.
> > Some very interesting items about the corporate dynamics 
> between CP-V, 
> > Multics, and GCOS within Honeywell.
> >
> > So personal papers are a treasure trove of information 
> tying together 
> > a multitude of currents within our industry, and I'd assert 
> the best 
> > source of the little eddies that often offer huge insight into 
> > decisions and outcomes which may otherwise may remain a mystery.
> >
> > Bottom line - we should be getting more personal papers in 
> addition to 
> > manuals, brochures, reports, etc...
> >   
>