EARLIER THIS month, INQ was over in the US right in the midst of the terrible California wildfires that destroyed an area the size of New York City. Even further south in San Francisco, the sheer scale of the fires made the air cloying and acrid. But as well as the human loss (over 40 people to date) it caused, the people made homeless as property (including the final home of Peanuts creator Charles Schultz) was indiscriminately destroyed along with irreplaceable wine vineyards and crops of medical marijuana, we now discover there was a loss for IT as well. It has been revealed that the Tubbs Fire (one of the three major constituent fires) consumed the archives of William Hewlett and David Packard. More than 100 boxes of history including personal notes and correspondence perished when two portacabins at the site of Keysight Technologies were razed. Keysight had inherited the documents during various mergers and demergers over the past 80 years since the Hewlett-Packard company was started in 1938. Many connected with HP Inc and HPE have questioned why the collection, recently valued at $2m and representing over half the companies’ total archive value across its sites, wasn’t better protected, but… Read full this story
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