Artifact Details

Date

2001-2002

Publisher

International Business Machines (IBM)

Duration

03:00:59

Format

DVD

Description

Five interviews about the IBM 305 RAMAC Computer with Disk Drive. James N. Porter is the interviewer for all five sessions. Transcripts of the interviews as well as several contemporaneous articles and documents which describe the invention and development of RAMAC can be found under catalog numbers 102727674 and 102739924.

The interviews are as follows:
Video Interview 1 - Louis D. Stevens, John M. (Jack) Harker and Thomas G Leary
Video Interview 2 - Louis D. Stevens, John M. (Jack) Harker and Alan F. Shugart
Video Interview 3 - Louis D. Stevens, John M. (Jack) Harker and Alan F. Shugart
Video Interview 4 - Louis D. Stevens, William Crooks and Norman Vogel
Video Interview 5 - Louis D. Stevens and Wesley Edward Dickinson

Category

Oral history

Credit

Gift of International Business Machines (IBM)

Lot Number

X4132.2008

Related Records

102739924	RAMAC oral history project
102727674	Unlocking the disk drive story