Looking Ahead: 1) cancelled the May Roseville Good Old Days and the Syttende Mai celebrations, 2) The 1st Tuesday lunch group (formerly meeting at Stark's) will resume starting in May at Casper's resaurant in Eagan, 3) welcome to those people who joined us via free 2021 membership - yet open at  http://vipclubmn.org/Membership.html, 4) The board has voted to extend our club ZOOM membership for another year. 5) Keith Myrhe is looking for help scanning and catalogging historical company artifacts at the Lawshe Museum on the 1st and 3rd tuesdays each month.  4/10/2021]

Welcome to our Club

VIP Club members' personal friendships started during our heritage company working days then continued as we have transitioned into retirement or other work.  As of April 2021 we have 754 active memberships in 40 states plus Canada, Germany, and Greece - Join us! 
We are proud of our heritage companies, our technology innovations, and our teamwork accomplishments while on the job - an intriguing and continuing legacy.  This is a living web site*, updated periodically with announcements and legacy articles.

Prior Announcements:

• 75-years ago, ENIAC was first demonstrated to the public in PA; visit www.ENIACDay.org and www.WorldComputerDay.org for celebration info. ERA's first public document has some ENIAC electronic circuit design details, ERA High Speed Computing Devices Book (1950).pdf (vipclubmn.org), ThatLittleInstrument.pdf (vipclubmn.org) has some quite stark ENIAC technology comparisons, and watch a 9.5-minute ENIAC video developed by Mark Greenia at the Computer History Archives Project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4oGI_dNaPc.  [2/1/2021]
• Jubilee year: 75 years ago Engineering Research Associates opened their doors on January 8, 1946 beginning Minnesota's computer industry!Safe recognition acivities are: 1) Read Articles/Anthologies2Go.pdf, 2) Read Curt Brown's Minneapolis Tribune 10 January article At 99, computer pioneer looks back at early Minnesota tech - StarTribune.com.[1/11/2021]
• REQUEST FREE ZOOM MEETING: Active VIP club members can request a free ZOOM meeting of unlimited duration by sending an email to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org. The email must include the requestor’s name, meeting date, start time and duration.
  When the VIP Zoom Meeting coordinator has scheduled your meeting, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link that you must forward to the participants you are inviting to your meeting. Participants need to only click on the link to join the meeting. No meeting host is required.
  Requests are honored on a first come first served basis if date/times overlap. Send questions to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org.  [10/15/2020]

*Contact webmaster to report broken links or to correct factual errors, or to post items hereon [item post date in brackets].  If you have a newsletter article or an obit to share with our membership, please send it to clubnewsltr@vipclubmn.org.