Loren:

Nice to hear from you.

I tried to convince Jeanne Martin to give her collection of J3 papers to
CHM (I think she said 12 shelf-feet).  I don't remember why that worked
out.  If you still have contact with her, maybe you can convince her to
do it.  From 07-007:

Jeanne T. Martin
11 Manti Terrace
Alamo, CA  94507

Email: [log in to unmask]

Phone: (925) 837-2691
Fax:   (925) 362-0144

Van

On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 01:35 +0000, Loren P Meissner wrote:
> I have been looking at the stuff on my library shelf that I am no
> longer using.
> 
> I haven’t used Fortran for a long time, but I have a lot of documents
> from “the olden days.”
> 
> I have begun discussions with Computer History Museum at Mountain View
> CA (not far from San Jose where I live), toward contributing some
> documents.
> 
> Paul McJones is a consultant to the Museum concerning their Fortran
> collection.
> 
> =
> 
> I have a collection of original documents: For-Word Newsletter
> (1975-1981) and ForTec Forum (1982 – Jun 1984), and most issues of
> Fortran Forum (Dec 1984 – Dec 1999)
> 
> The Museum catalog shows ForTec Forum and Fortran Forum 1984-1986, but
> I am not sure how complete their sequence is.
> 
> =
> 
> I want to find out if other Fortran sources have any of the Fortran
> Forum issues that are MISSING from my collection.
> 
> My missing Fortran Forum issues are:
> 
> Serial No 13 (between Oct 85 and Jul 86)
> 
> Serial No 16 (between Apr and Dec 87)
> 
> Serial No 23 (between Aug 89 and Mar 90)
> 
> Serial Numbers 28 through 34 (between Jul 91 and Sep 93)
> 
> Michael Metcalf assumed the role of Editor, beginning with Serial
> Number 54 dated April 1999,
> 
> My collection ends with Serial No 56 dated Dec 99, about the time I
> retired from University of San Francisco. I know hardly anything about
> the history of Fortran Forum and of the SIGPLAN Technical Committee on
> Fortran after that.
> 
> =
> 
> If you have a copy of any of the issues that are missing from my
> collection, including issues after 1999, and especially if you would
> consider donating them, please respond.
> 
> Potential email contacts are me ([log in to unmask]), Paul McJones
> ([log in to unmask]), and FortranCompany ([log in to unmask]).
> 
> Loren P Meissner
>