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Bob Metcalfe shared with us his favorite tchotchkes (yiddish for what we call schwag today) and this 30 year anniversary ball cap stood...

This could have been used on a 3Com coffee mug but all we could find were these mugs for now - we'd love to see your mug from 3Com or...

Perhaps the most important article ever written in 3Com's history - Bob Mao, 3Com's CEO, based in Beijing, and Ron Sege, COO, out of...

1992 - it was a very good year - for 3Com returning to its internetworking roots. First, they bought BICC in the UK, bringing valuable...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...

In researching and writing our book about 3Com, we found inspiration in a variety of materials - these are just a few of the books that...

A huge thank you to 3Com's first 100 employees! Many of these early 3Comers provided eye-opening interviews that have helped bring our...

Congratulations to Ron Sege, CEO of Echelon Corporation, on the successful sale of Echelon to Adesto Technologies (NASDAQ: IOTS) on June...

Almost 40 years ago, In 1979, Bob Metcalfe called up his MIT Sigma Nu fraternity brother Howard Charney, a motorcycle aficionado, and...

In 1990, 3Com laid off a sizable number of employees as a result of exiting the 3+Open partnership with Microsoft. 3Com worked hard to...

What do Bill Gates, Dan Fystra, Mitch Kapor, Dennis Vohs, David Clayton, Fred Gibbons, and Bob Frankston all have in common?

Unless you are like tidying phenomenon Marie Kondo, you have probably collected a few sentimental T-shirts over the years... or a few...

"3Com was an experiment that worked because the people were so dedicated and so smart." a. John Chambers b. Bob Metcalfe c. Eric Benhamou...

Ethernet arrived (in the form of a celebrated memo from Bob Metcalfe) on May 22, 1973, and went on to have profound impact on the world....

With apologies to Lennon & McCartney, Bob Metcalfe…and everyone else! It was 45 years ago Dr. Metcalfe taught the bits to flow They’ve...