84 results for: Computers and Technology
Box of Immunex Enbrel vials, 1999
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.3
Date:1999
Braun-Diessel Bioreactor, ca. 1990
A bioreactor is a device that grows human cells or tissues. This bioreactor comes from the biotech company Immunex which was founded in Seattle in 1981 by research scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney who were then studying human hormones and proteins at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. By 2001, Immunex was the largest biotechnology company in Washington State.…
ID Number:2003.15.11
Date:Circa 1990
Pipette used in the labs at Immunex, ca. 1999
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.16
Date:1999
Denim shirt from last McCaw Cellular general council meeting, 1994
McCaw Cellular Communications was a pioneering cellular telephone company based in Redmond, Washington. In 1981, Craig McCaw (b. 1949) began buying cellular licenses in cities across the US, and in 1987 he sold the cable TV portion of his family business and fully transitioned the company to cellular communications. By 1989 McCaw had access to all the major US markets…
ID Number:2006.58.16
Date:1994
First generation 512K Macintosh computer, Model M0001, ca. 1984-1986, owned by Ric Weiland, one of the Microsoft's first employees
Mr. Weiland was one of Microsoft's first five employees and a philanthropist, serving on the Pride Foundation's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Weiland worked as a programmer at Microsoft from 1975 to 1988, also attending Harvard Business School during that time. He was a lead programmer and developer for the BASIC and COBOL products, and worked as…
ID Number:2007.9.1
Date:Circa 1984-1986
Atari 800 personal computer, ca. 1979, owned by Ric Weiland, one of the Microsoft's first employees
Mr. Weiland was one of Microsoft's first five employees and a philanthropist, serving on the Pride Foundation's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Weiland worked as a programmer at Microsoft from 1975 to 1988, also attending Harvard Business School during that time. He was a lead programmer and developer for the BASIC and COBOL products, and worked as…
ID Number:2007.9.2
Date:Circa 1979
Atari 810 disk drive, ca. 1980, owned by Ric Weiland, one of Microsoft's first employees
Mr. Weiland was one of Microsoft's first five employees and a philanthropist, serving on the Pride Foundation's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Weiland worked as a programmer at Microsoft from 1975 to 1988, also attending Harvard Business School during that time. He was a lead programmer and developer for the BASIC and COBOL products, and worked as…
ID Number:2007.9.3
Date:Circa 1980
Atari 850 interface module, ca. 1980, owned by Ric Weiland, one of Microsoft's first employees
Mr. Weiland was one of Microsoft's first five employees and a philanthropist, serving on the Pride Foundation's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Weiland worked as a programmer at Microsoft from 1975 to 1988, also attending Harvard Business School during that time. He was a lead programmer and developer for the BASIC and COBOL products, and worked as…
ID Number:2007.9.4
Date:Circa 1980
TV to Game Switchbox used on an Atari Computer 800, ca. 1980
The Atari 800 was designed to compete with Apple Computer's home computing machines. This switchbox, from the Ric Weiland collection, was used to connect the computer to the television set which was used as the monitor. Mr. Weiland was one of Microsoft's first five employees and a philanthropist, serving on the Pride Foundation's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002.
ID Number:2007.9.7
Date:Circa 1980
T-Shirt, "Boy Meets Boy," ca. 1990s
This shirt belonged to Ric Weiland (1953-2006), pioneering programmer for Microsoft and prominent advocate for gay rights. Weiland was a Lakeside classmate of Paul Allen and Bill Gates and in 1975 became the first lead programmer for Microsoft. He retired in 1988 at age 35. As the value of his stock holdings grew, Weiland increasingly devoted himself to philanthropy, donating…
ID Number:2007.9.20
Date:1990-1999