Artifact Details

Title

Ward, Jack oral history

Catalog Number

102792186

Type

Document

Description

Jack Ward is a professional electronic engineer and principal of the Transistor Museum based in Brookline, Massachusetts. Jack grew up in the rural southern United States and graduated with a degree in social anthropology and linguistics from the University of Illinois. He worked at Data General as a software service engineer and 20 years at the Hewlett Packard, Medical Products Group near Boston. After working remotely for Affymetrix, Santa Clara providing FDA compliance support for 10 years he started his own consulting business. In the mid-1990s, Jack’s interest in the history of early semiconductor devices led to establishment of the online Transistor Museum at http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm. He has been generous in sharing his work with the Computer History Museum.

Date

2021-04-27

Contributor

Laws, David, Interviewer
Wards, Jack, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Boston, MA

Extent

20 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Data General; Hewlett Packard (HP); Affymetrix; Raytheon; transistor; semiconductor; Fairchild; Krim

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X9467.2021

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102792187 Ward, Jack oral history