Artifact Details

Title

Computer Bowl - East Coast Wins!

Catalog Number

102685394

Type

Still image

Description

B&W. Image of East Coast winners of the Computer Bowl. The winners are behind a table with a banner in front. Richard Shaffer is seated holding the winning crystal bowl trophy.
Verso Label: " The East Coast wins the world's first Computer Bowl, October 7, 1988, at the World Trade Center in Boston, Mass.
Sponsored by The Computer Museum, Boston, the Bowl matched longtime industry rivals in a contest of computer smarts.
From left to right
Dr. John William "Bill" Posuska, Sr. Chairman and CEO of Stellar Computer; Esther Dyson Editor-Publisher of Release 1.0; Richard Shaffer (team captain) Editor-Publisher, Technologic Computer Letter; David Hathaway Partner, Venrock Associates; Mitchell Kapor Chairman, ON Technology.

Photo credit: Bob Fields, Carousel Photographers
A project of The COmputer Museum 300 Congress Street Boston, MA (617) 426-2800"

Date

1988 ca.

Photographer

Fields, Bob

Publisher

The Computer Museum

Place of Publication

Boston, MA, US

Dimensions

overall: 8 in x 10 in

Category

Identification photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015