Artifact Details

Title

Sanden, Lynn oral history

Catalog Number

102657989

Type

Document

Description

Lynn Sanden discusses her career with Tymshare beginning as a secretary in the Engineering Department and gradually assuming more and more personnel-related responsibilities until she became Manager of Personnel. She discusses implementing affirmative action programs after the passage of the Civil Right Act in 1964 and her role in integrating new employees into Tymshare's personnel systems following Tymshare's numerous acquisitions. She covers how gender discrimination varied in different departments at Tymshare and touches briefly on her career after leaving the company.

Date

2004-06-11

Contributor

Hardy, Ann, Interviewer
Johnson, Luanne, Interviewer
Sanden, Lynn, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Cameron Park, Calif.

Extent

29 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Software business history; Sanden, Lynn; Hardy, Ann; Tymshare, Inc.; O'Rourke, Tom; Schmidt, Dave; United Data Centers; Western Twenty Nine; McDonnell Douglas Automation; Executive Order 11246; EEO1; Graphics Control

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Lot Number

X3801.2007