Belleville, Robert oral history part 1 of 2
Bob Belleville's career in the world of computing started in 1965 at Purdue University and took him through many problem solving tasks with many companies including Silicon Valley's SRI, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer where he lead the hardware and software development of the original Macintosh computer, Appletalk network, and laser printer. Part 1 of this oral history interviewed by Robert Garner, Bob talks about Sputnik, the H-bomb finite element analysis of cardboard, labor relation grievance procedure scheduling, and the testing of an Army truck using the computers of the time including IBM 7094, IBM 360 and more. At SRI (then Stanford Research International) he worked in the pioneering Augment Research Center (ARC) with Doug Engelbart. His story then moves to Xerox in the mid 70's and the creation of team to design Xerox's 8010 Star processor. Finally a call from Steve Jobs took him to Apple in the mid 80's. Part 1 ends with Bob describing his home-brew computer built in the 70's and now on display in the Computer History Museum.
Item Details
- Date
- 2016-08-22 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102717192
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Robert Garner (Interviewer)
Christopher Garcia (Interviewer)
Robert Belleville (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 104 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7919.2017
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Oral History collection