Thompson (Ken) oral history
At Bell Laboratories in 1977, Ken Thompson (best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system) and Joe Condon designed and built Belle, a dedicated chess-playing machine connected to a minicomputer. Belle's custom hardware and endgame database revolutionized computer chess.
Item Details
- Date
- 2005-02-08 (Made)
- Type
- Moving Image
- Catalogue number
- 102630664
- Other identifying number
- OHP 136 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Ken Thompson (Interviewee)
Yan Rosenshteyn (Videographer)
John Mashey (Interviewer) - Category
- Oral History
- Format
- DVCAM
- Extent
- 01:42:56
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X3091.2005
- Subject
- Bell Laboratories, Belle, Unix Operating System
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection