{"id":6,"date":"2003-12-02T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/6\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:05:25","slug":"the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Based on Irv Ziller&#8217;s recollection that historic Fortran materials had been sent to the Smithsonian Institution, I looked at their web site and found this page describing the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050211102408\/http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/csr\/cadits.htm\">Division of Information Technology &amp; Society<\/a>, which is part of the National Museum of American History and whose collections include the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120113012525\/http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/comphist\/\">Computer History Collection<\/a>.  My attempts to establish communication with the staff of this Division got off to a slow start.  Later, I learned that they were consumed with the creation of a major new exhibition, <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/exhibitions\/price-of-freedom\">&#8220;The Price of Freedom&#8221;<\/a>, to open November 11, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update 1\/2\/2016:<\/strong> Updated Smithsonian URLs via Internet Archive <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\">Wayback Machine.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on Irv Ziller&#8217;s recollection that historic Fortran materials had been sent to the Smithsonian Institution, I looked at their web site and found this page describing the Division of Information Technology &amp; Society, which is part of the National Museum of American History and whose collections include the Computer History Collection. My attempts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Smithsonian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}