12. Non-DART Collections.

The SailDart web site includes non-DART material relevant to the first SAIL. The Non-DART collection is simply archival items that were not on the DART tapes. Most such records are directly related to SAIL, however a few collections of records were entrusted to me which I could not turn away (for example the Bell Lab Unix newsletters for 1972 to 1990). The non-DART includes video of the reunion talks, digitized films and photographs, scanned documents hardcopy of the PDP-6 and PDP-10 manuals Monitor and UUO manuals FAIL and PUB manuals and the Yum yum – online restaurant guide. 

12.1 Scanned papers and books

12.2 Scanned photographs

12.3 Digitized SAIL film

12.4 Post DART video

12.5 Inventory of SAIL documents

12.6 Inventory of SAIL photographs

12.7 Inventory of physical SAIL objects

At the Baumgart residence in Los Gatos: A door key to the D. C. Power building, one reel of actual DART tape for the S1 user disk pack, and three ball point pens made of red and white plastic with a Stanford University Seal and teeth marks from a caffeine addicted graduate student. Paper based documents are listed else where (books, manuals, listings, notebooks, and photographs). SAIL objects on display at the Wm Gates Building on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto include the gold arm, the blue arm, a librascope disk platter, a keyboard, and a few others bits and pieces. SAIL objects at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View include the ORM and the CART and very little else that is not a film or a document.

 Exercises

  1. Avoid mission creep. Simply hand off copies of the SailDart for inclusion in larger collections maintained by computer history museums, university libraries, corporations, and individuals; rather than attempting to include their material inside SailDart.
  2. Ask people for their photographs or film taken at SAIL in the 1960s and 1970s. I am less avid in collecting computer science department material that does not directly appear inside the SAIL file system.
  3. Write more in this chapter pointing out how the best of the non-DART material relates to the SAIL files. For example, where is the software that was used in each film? Where are the source files for each scanned paper ?
  4. Archaeological approach to SAIL. I prefer keeping bits not atoms from the past, however I would be interested in helping anyone who wishes to investigate exactly what happened to the D. C. Power Building and its contents.
  5. Examine the thick Portola Pastures sign, is the outer layer bolted on top of the old Stanford A.I. sign ?