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Unofficial account of the Archives of the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, Calif.). Computers! History! Archives! A Museum!

Item shows a digital photo matted in light blue and framed in gold, titled "Bridge 2" donated by Paul Shaf. CHM Object 102703864
Young people, presumably college students, peruse written materials from Digital Equipment Corp's display on campus at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1983.
Typewritten page; black on white: NAMING GUIDELINES, which insists that full words are generally better than acronyms for filenames. "...Derive an acceptable name that is not too difficult to remember."
Black and white illustration with exterior round frame reading "Grrrls Need Modems!" and a 1940's-era image of a woman wearing a telephone operator-type headset with microphone partially obscuring her lipsticked mouth.