Re: [NTLK] Newton R&D Documents at Virginia Tech?

From: Alan Davis (mdawd_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 17:46:22 PST


From the look of the Web page this contains documents and information on
buildings designed and built for Apple by women. May not be much help for
Newtonians. I will check for sure if I am up in Virginia. (I live in North
Carolina).

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On 02/06/04 11:04 AM, "Grant Hutchinson" <grant_at_splorp.com> wrote:

> During a random Google, I stumbled across an interesting bit of
> information. Apparently there is a box of documents related to Apple's
> Bubb Road Newton research and development being stored as part of the
> 'International Archive of Women in Architecture' located in Virginia
> Tech's archives.
>
> What it's doing there is anyone's guess.
>
> It's labeled as such:
>
> BOX 28 (1987)
> * 8724 Apple Computer - Bubb Road (R&D - Newton) Cupertino, CA
>
> There's quite a few other Apple related boxes too:
>
> BOX 29 (1987-1988)
> * 8804 Apple Computer 10260 Bubb Road - Cupertino
>
> BOX 33 (1988)
> * 8836 Apple Computer - Bubb Road Reproduction/Mail
>
> Here's the link to the list:
>
> http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawaspec/rupp/boxes1-56.htm
>
> Anybody live close enough to Virginia Tech to check and see whether these
> archive collections are publicly accessible?
>
> I wonder what's in that box?
>
> g.
>
> ......................................................................
>
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>

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