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From: Jim Scherrer <in...@thecompuseum.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: We'd like to include you in upcoming ENIAC Day 75th Anniversary
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Re: We'd like to include you in upcoming ENIAC Day 75th Anniversary

Hello members and friends of Compuseum-

Your friends and members of Compuseum have been hard at work preparing for an exceptional week of education on the topic of the ENIAC!

You can participate in many ways as follows:

1) Go to www.ENIACDay.org web site and check out the links for events. There are three remaining, one is complete.

2) Forward details of these events to your Social Media friends with the attached Social Card.

3) Donate at the Donate Now button on the web site to support the mission.

4) Send your High Resolution Logo as a "supporter" of the events; we'll add you to the web site.

5) Consider sending us a Happy Birthday "video clip"; its easy and fun!

I invite you to participate in ENIAC Day celebrations by creating a 15 second video clip cameo appearance wishing Happy Birthday to ENIAC. We are putting these into a video collage to show on ENIAC Day February 15th and also on the web site www.ENIACDay.org

Follow these procedures...

Use your cell phone on your face. Record something like the following message. Hello, I am ___ your name____, of ____company/entity____, and I am wishing Happy 75th Anniversary to ENIAC! Happy Birthday old man" (or something like that).
Then send to me at in...@theCompuseum.org with Subject line "Video Clip of Happy Birthday ENIAC".

Feel free to have an interesting background which celebrates "computing".  We will patch this into others doing the same.

Thank you for your participation in ENIAC Day 75th Anniversary and support of our regional leadership in computing here in Philly, the crucible of the computer age.

Here's A KYW Podcast of Dr. Brian Stuart
https://www.radio.com/kywnewsradio/podcasts/kyw-newsradio-in-depth-229/the-first-computer-is-turning-75-in-philadelphia-eniac-set-the-stage-for-everything-356874581

You can be proud of all the ENIAC DAY PRESS we've generated FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

Australia
https://www.itwire.com/it-industry/75th-anniversary-of-eniac-on-feb-15-2021,-the-first-all-electronic-programmable-computer.html

Association for Computing Machines- ACM
https://cacm.acm.org/news/250485-eniac-turns-75/fulltext

Philly Inquirer
https://www.inquirer.com/science/eniac-75-anniversary-computer-penn-philadelphia-20210211.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3Ak69Z9B2sy00cGu2PulRVSpr5TcfDHqAHQmtgxz1yh7EEuay0g6ZKl1c

Technically Philly
https://technical.ly/philly/2021/02/09/eniac-75th-anniversary-penn/

Global Philadelphia
http://globalphiladelphia.org/news/eniac-philadelphia%E2%80%99s-forgotten-crown-achievement

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/worlds-first-general-purpose-computer-turns-75

West Chester- VISTA Today
https://vista.today/2021/02/west-chester-based-software-exec-coordinates-celebration-of-philly-as-the-crucible-of-the-computer-age/?utm_source=VISTA+Today&utm_campaign=68decca5f0-Morning_Drive_Campaign5_28_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75b1fa784c-68decca5f0-275466698


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Regards,

Jim Scherrer, Founder and President
COMPUSEUM, INC.

Technology Center
137 North Wawaset Road
West Chester, PA 19382-6735 - USA
610-793-4600
www.TheCompuseum.org
in...@TheCompuseum.org
SKYPE = JS.Scherrer
Twitter: @TheCompuseum

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The mission of Compuseum is to stimulate the public and the technology industry to share information and to raise the public awareness of the important role the digital age has played and will continue to play in our society. Compuseum will be a springboard into various ways to teach and discuss new and emerging technologies, and their implications, within the context of prior achievement. Thank you for helping the Compuseum bring people together from across America and around the world to learn about, discuss, and celebrate the computer technology revolution.

The Compuseum is a fully independent, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. Federal ID: #81-2285516. Your donation is considered a fully tax-deductible contribution per guidelines set forth in IRS Publication 526 “Charitable Contributions.” No goods or services are provided in exchange for your contribution.

On Twitter, we need more @TheCompuseum 'followers' so if any of you have not yet signed up to Twitter and want to follow our exciting mission and growth, please grow our social media footprint and influence about our great organization!

View the history of ENIAC here: ENIAC

Compuseum sponsors and organizes the annual World Computer Day on February 15th to celebrate computers and the people who make IT happen.

View the History of HP here: Did you have an HP-35?

View the Worlds First PC- Kenbak 1- By John Blankenbaker Read about John Blankenbaker on BBC World News Our "Friend of Compuseum"

Scott Galloway's analysis of the Big Four- Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple

Elon Musk's (PENN alum) first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 from West Chester, PA. Now he builds the "Computer on Wheels" at TESLA.

Compuseum now has the earliest climate change research software in its collection.

Compuseum highlights the Southeastern PA site of the manufacture of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor chip which was used in the Apple I and II by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. The group of eight engineers, mask designers and management team (Team6502.org) left Motorola in August 1974 and introduced the MOS NMOS 6502 in September 1975. The KIM-1 was introduced in 1975. MOS Technology was acquired by Commodore in 1976 when they started the PET Computer.

The history of the computer-tech revolution is well storied. Far from exhibiting “irrational exuberance” — as infamously asserted by economist Alan Greenspan in 1996 — tech entrepreneurs were not only quite rational, but from the ‘bottom up’ literally created an entirely new kind of infrastructure and permanently transformed society. Policies and institutions have been forced to embrace the implications or be assimilated.

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