Rockwell Collins
Retiree Association
Rockwell Collins Retiree Association - Our Mission
"The purpose of the Rockwell Collins Retirees Association shall be to provide an organization and meeting place for the members and their families, where they can find companionship developed over their careers at Rockwell Collins and opportunities to pursue their interests in recreational activities, crafts, education and activities to promote the welfare of the community".
Member Contributions
Contributions received at the meetings continues to play a major role in offsetting the expenses of this organization. When the baskets are passed please be generous.
Another way to help RCRA is to purchase an ad in the newsletter. Any officer can help you with the details.
RCRA Roster Information
Are you interested in obtaining a Compact Disk that includes the name and addresses for our more than 2200 members? If you request copies you can pick up the CD at our next meeting at the Richardson Civic Center. Also the cost will be only $5.00 a copy. This medium allows more information (like email addresses) to be included without increasing the production cost. When we print hard copies more information means more pages; that leads to higher reproduction costs.
To obtain a roster by mail, send your request including your address along with a check for $5.00 to:
Rockwell Collins Retirees Association
P.O. Box 851271
Richardson, TX 75085-1271
Don't forget to order in advance and pay on pickup.
RockWell Collins Recognition:
Internet Communications
When we started our employment with Collins Radio or Rockwell International, we had never heard of the internet. Today references to it have become common. The internet has come a long way in just a few decades. It has greatly improved productivity of companies, and individuals that use it. Do you realize that the path to the beginning of the internet and its widespread usage traveled through our company Rockwell-Collins in Richardson, TX?
On November 7, 2007 a number of Rockwell Collins retirees were invited by the Mountain View Museum of Computer History to celebrate the first 3-network demonstration of TCP, 30 years ago. That demonstration has now been recognized as the watershed point in technology that became the internet. Our RCRA President, Anant Jain, along with Jim Garrett and Mike Cisco attended from Rockwell-Collins team. A number of additional RCRA retirees who participated with Anant and Jim in 1977 were invited, but could not attend. The three networks involved in the experiment were the ARPANET, PRNET (Packet Radio Net from Collins) and the SATNET. While many people trace the internet origins to ARPANET of the late 1960’s, in fact the word ‘internet’ means joining different types of networks together – as demonstrated by the experiment in 1977. Our customers at the time- Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf (now credited as co-inventors of Internet), along with representatives from Stanford Research, BBN, UCLA and Qualcom were also present. Congratulations to our fellow retirees for being recognized as Internet Pioneers!
Mike Lauterbach