Artifact Details

Title

Vranka, Joe oral history

Catalog Number

102740239

Type

Document

Description

This is one in a series of oral histories taken by the Computer History Museum’s Storage SIG on the history of magnetic tape recording. Oral histories and memorabilia collected during this series can be identified by searching the museum’s catalog database for “Storage history, tape”
Today’s session will focus on tape media development at IBM.
Joseph S. (Joe) Vranka completed the work towards a PhD in Chemistry at Duke University and after a brief interval joined IBM in 1961 as materials technologist specializing in film coatings. During his 26 year career at IBM he contributed to the development and production of all the magnetic coatings for tapes used by IBM from the Hypertape to the 3480. In addition at IBM and after retirement he worked other coating challenges such as occur in specialized papers.

The interviewee donated some artifacts to the museum, to see a list, please, search for lot number X8473.2018

Date

2017-10-11

Contributor

Gardner, Tom, Interviewer

Vranka, Joe, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Superior, CO

Extent

44 p.

Format

PDF

Credit