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Text
Title
SCALD (Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design) oral history series : interview 3 of 3 : Tom McWilliams
Contributor
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McWilliams, Tom, Interviewee; Editor
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Stump, Holly, Interviewer
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Widdoes, Curt, Editor
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Date
2008-02-12
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
9 p.
Description
In the last of three interviews focused on the history of the SCALD (Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design) System developed in the 1970s at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Tom McWilliams discusses his early personal history, his experiences developing DEC's first logic simulator (Sage), the S-1 Project at LLNL, the development of SCALD, the founding of Valid Logic Systems, and the three computer technology companies that he established after Valid (Key Computer, PathScale and Schooner Information Technology).
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Transcription
Subject
Valid Logic Systems; McWilliams, Tom; Widdoes, Curt; Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); Sage logic simulator; Bell, Gordon; Casasent, Dave; Hertz Foundation; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, LLL); Wood, Lowell; Stanford Computer Science Department; Stanford AI Laboratory (SAIL); Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design (SCALD); S-1 Project; S-1 Mark I; S-1 Mark IIA; S-1 Mark IIA; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE); Electronic design automation (EDA); Daisy, Mentor, Valid (DMV); Key Computer; Rubin, Jeff; PathScale; Schooner Information Technology
Collection Title
Oral Histories Online
Accession Number
102658344