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<font face="Georgia">Hi Martin,<br>
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This is great news. A few years back, I set up a project here at
Stanford to see what the district court archives had. We hired a guy
to photocopy materials for us, and indeed we received some interesting
stuff (some of which I used in my Pong article), but we learned that
due to terms of the settlement(s), a lot of the material was sealed.
If, after scanning, you need an archival home for the papers or for the
digitized copies, just let me know. Ralph was a huge help on the
article, and I feel like I owe him.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
<br>
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Martin Goldberg wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Just wanted to inform the list, just got back from staying at my
friend Ralph Baer's place for a few days. Besides working on a few
projects with him, the main purpose of the visit was to take
possession of a large cache (8 or so legal boxes worth) of documents.
These were patent filings and renewals, and several major court cases
from the 70's and 80's. These include the original Bally/Atari/Allied
Sears case of the mid 70's, APF/Mattel in the late 70's/early 80's,
Activision, Nintendo and more during the 80's. The content includes
all legal paperwork, transcriptions, and testimonies (including people
such as Higinbotham). Also a bunch of material related to the 70's
home and arcade industry, such as documentation of the industries
first licensing and such.
We will now be starting the long and arduous process of cataloging and
scanning everything to make it available online in the future. So
far, it looks like the cataloging method I'll be going with is:
Main Subject - Sub-Subject - Folder - Doc#.
Subject would be just what we have written on the box. So like for
the royalty payments one you'd have -
RB-Royalty-Allied-1.pdf
for the scan name. RB of course being Ralph Baer, Royalty being the
box, Allied being the folder, and 1 being whatever document that is in
the folder.
Marty
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Henry Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004 USA
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