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Wayne Hamilton at Nintendo Distribution Center, North Bend, 1992
In this image, Wayne Hamilton shows off two of the four “automated guided vehicles” that run Nintendo of America’s distribution center in North Bend, Washington. Hamilton was Nintendo’s director of distribution. The vehicles automatically move pallets of game cartridges through the facility using electronic paths embedded in the floor and carry them to the automated storage and retrieval shelves (visible…
ID Number:2000.107.19921222.5.31
Date:1992
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Display of durian at Viet-Wah supermarket, Seattle, February 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.2.17
Date:1993
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Saros Corp. executives at their Bellevue office, May 1993
Bellevue-based Saros Corporation began in 1986, when founders Wayne Carpenter and Mike Kennewick saw the need for a product to manage the masses of unstructured information floating around in corporate computer networks. They brought together software engineers from the PC world and from the world of multiprocessor mainframe computers to develop a solution to the problem of storing, tracking, and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930513.1.39
Date:1993
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Herman McKinney in downtown Seattle, May 1993
Herman McKinney (1938-2014) was a community leader in Seattle who spent decades advocating for equal opportunity in corporate hiring, and for diversity in graduate education. McKinney left a career in banking to pursue social work, receiving a MSW degree from University of Washington in 1968. He the joined the staff at UW, serving as Assistant Dean of the Minority Division…
ID Number:2000.107.19930520.5.04
Date:1993
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Executives at Attachmate Corp. office, Bellevue, June 9, 1993
The software company Attachmate Corporation was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt and Tom Borkowski, and would become one of the major technology employers in the Seattle area. The company focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, later linking desktop PCs to IBM host computers with its connectivity software. In 2005, Attachmate merged with another major Seattle-area tech…
ID Number:2000.107.19930609.5.14
Date:1993
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Howard Schultz sitting at table with cup of coffee, Seattle, October 7, 1993
Howard Schultz (b. 1953) is a businessman who has been CEO of Starbucks multiple times, including during the company’s explosive growth in the late 1980s and 1990s. He joined the company in 1982 as director of marketing and retail operations, then purchased the company in 1987 and became its CEO. At that time, Starbucks had only 11 locations. By 2000,…
ID Number:2000.107.19931007.1.06
Date:1993
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John Jessen of Electronic Evidence Discovery in his office, Seattle, November 12, 1993
John H. Jessen founded Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. in 1988 after a lawyer friend asked his advice about searching for evidence stored on personal computers (PCs). Jessen realized that electronic information stored on company computers could also be important to corporate legal work, and used his knowledge of both business and computers to launch his new company. In 2008, Electronic…
ID Number:2000.107.19931112.1.11
Date:1993
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David Cole of Microsoft with pickup truck, Redmond, February 15, 1995
Microsoft scheduled the release of Windows 95 for August 1995. With the huge growth of the personal computer software market, the company had to make sure that the complex new release was as trouble-free as possible. David Cole, Microsoft’s general manager for the testing and debugging effort, was quoted as saying that the new software is supposed to make PCs…
ID Number:2000.107.19950215.1.13
Date:1995
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Jerry Dyer working at Microsoft's Redmond campus, June 25, 1996
MSNBC, a partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, was launched on July 15, 1996 as both a 24-hour cable TV news channel and interactive Internet site. While ultimate editorial control over content was held by NBC, Microsoft also developed reporting staff at its Redmond headquarters to generate and report its own stories. Reporters based at Microsoft focused on world economics,…
ID Number:2000.107.19960625.4.15
Date:1996
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Ben Slivka of Microsoft, August 9, 1996
Software developer Ben Slivka worked at Microsoft from 1985 to 1999. Slivka worked on OS/2, MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2, and Windows 95 before leading the programming team in charge of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0, the third version of the web browser in a little over a year. This photograph of Ben Slivka accompanied an article about the frantic pace of…
ID Number:2000.107.19960809.1.29
Date:1996