[J3] J3's history

[Van Snyder]

On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 08:00 -0400, Steve Lionel via J3 wrote:
> John,
> 
> It would be great if you could scan in the minutes of meetings you
> have, and I will be happy to add them to the web site. I also very
> much appreciate the list of older meetings - even for the ones I
> already have, it was sometimes difficult to know the dates and
> locations. Thanks!

I sent my box of Fortran 90  correspondence with X3J3 to the Computer
History Museum in Sunnyvale. Loren Meissner was assigned as curator. I
don't know whether he's scanned any of it. There were several versions
of S8, as the draft standard was called at the time.

> 
> Steve
> 
> On 10/29/2021 7:49 AM, John Reid via J3 wrote:
> 
> > Dear all, 
> > 
> > There was a discussion on Wednesday about the former practice of
> > X3J3 moving meetings around, relying on local hosts. This inspired
> > me to dig through the paper files on my bottom shelf and make a
> > list, which is attached. The meetings page of the J3 web site has a
> > list but peters out around meeting 137 in 1996 which coincidently
> > is about the time the switch was made to meeting mostly in Las
> > Vegas. My first meeting was 76, 1981, in Berkeley, but I had been
> > following developments before then so I was able to go back to
> > meeting 66. 
> > 
> > As a trial, I scanned one of my old minutes (meeting 121 in 1992)
> > and put it in the Librarian Meeting Files folder. Steve, would you
> > like to make this accessible in the same way as other J3 documents
> > and would you like me to scan others? 
> > 
> > Cheers, 
> > 
> > John. 
> 

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