Artifact Details

Title

Belleville, Robert oral history part 1 of 2

Catalog Number

102717192

Type

Document

Description

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.

Date

2016-08-22

Contributor

Belleville, Robert, Interviewee

Garcia, Christopher, Interviewer

Garner, Robert, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Extent

104 p.

Format

PDF

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit