Oral History of Chuck Geschke, part 2 of 2

Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2018-10-26 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum This oral history captures the life and career of Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, as recorded by the Computer History Museum in 2018. Born in Cleveland in 1939, Geschke grew up in a working-class Catholic family where education, religion, and politics were central. Originally aspiring to become a Jesuit priest, he spent three yea...

Oral History of Chuck Geschke, part 1 of 2

Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2018-04-04 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum This oral history captures the life and career of Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, as recorded by the Computer History Museum in 2018. Born in Cleveland in 1939, Geschke grew up in a working-class Catholic family where education, religion, and politics were central. Originally aspiring to become a Jesuit priest, he spent three yea...

CHM Live | Making News with Data: Tech and the Future of News

[Recorded April 16, 2025] From data journalism, which uses data analysis and visualization to uncover and explain news stories, to AI, technology continues to reshape the future of news. Since 2022, CHM has convened a diverse range of journalism and technology leaders for a series of Tech and the Future of News roundtables and public forum events from New York to Silicon Valley. In the dynamic news environment of 2025, computin...

Oral History of Peter Groel

Interviewed by Tom Gardner on 2017-10-12 in Superior, CO © Computer History Museum Peter Groel is a German-born engineer whose career spans four decades in the tape storage industry. After graduating from engineering school in Mannheim, Germany, Groel began his career at Siemens in 1974, working on magnetic tape drives. His exposure to StorageTek during a year-long assignment as a Siemens representative in Colorado transformed his approach to engineering. Thi...

Oral History of Erik Solhjell

Interviewed by Tom Gardner on 2018-06-26 in Larvik, Norway © Computer History Museum This oral history interview captures the five-decade career of Erik Solhjell, a key figure in tape storage technology who helped pioneer innovations that shaped the industry from the 1970s through the 2000s. Solhjell's career at Tandberg and its successor companies parallels the evolution of tape storage from 20 megabytes to 2 terabytes. The interview was recorded at Solhj...