Tymes, LaRoy oral history
LaRoy Tymes describes his career as a computer operator and programmer at Berkeley Lawrence Laboratory in Livermore and then at Tymshare. When he arrived at Tymshare, the company was running separate discrete data centers for their time-sharing customers and LaRoy designed and developed the supervisor for Tymnet, Tymshare's proprietary network. He also designed a specialized mini-computer, known as the Tymnet engine, to support the Tymnet supervisor. He talks briefly about his career after Tymshare and describes the parallel development of Tymnet and ARPANET.
Item Details
- Date
- 2004-06-11 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102657988
- Other identifying number
- doc-419d15f06d53e (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Ann Hardy (Interviewer)
LaRoy Tymes (Interviewee)
Luanne Johnson (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 37 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Cameron Park
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X3800.2007
- Subject
- Software Business History, Telenet, ARPANET, Tymnet, Tymshare, Inc., Time-Sharing Computer Systems, SDS 940 (Computer), Control Data 6600 (Computer)
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection