Title
Crooks, Bill (William) oral history
Catalog Number
102702016
Type
Document
Description
William "Bill" Crooks was a contributing engineer in the development of the RAMAC disk drive. In April 1952 he was hired by IBM to work as a mechanical engineer in the fledgling IBM San Jose lab run by Rey Johnson. One of Crooks duties was to select the material and the coating for the RAMAC disks. In this oral history Crooks describes the process he went through to carry out this task. He also shares stories of Thomas Watson, Senior, and Thomas Watson, Junior, how the disk file became the RAMAC, and the IBM move from 99 Notre Dame to Cottle Road.
Date
2008-11-13
Contributor
Crooks, William (Bill), Interviewee
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Gardner, Tom, Interviewer; Editor
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, USA
Extent
28 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Crooks, William (Bill); RAMAC; IBM; Johnson, Rey; Stevens, Lou; Storage history
Collection Title
Oral history collection