Artifact Details

Title

Evolutionary Events in Core Business Information Systems

Catalog Number

500001033

Type

Document

Description

Bruce Peterson describes his long career in data processing starting as an operator of punched card equipment through becoming a programmer and then a data processing manager. He describes how he faced and solved some major challenges as a manager at Hughes Aircraft as the volume of data being processed began to overwhelm the capacity of their computer system.

Date

2007-02

Contributor

Peterson, Bruce, Author

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Identifying Numbers

Other number doc-4b96ae5964ee8 Deprecated ITCHP Number

Extent

6 p.

Format

PDF

Subject

Data processing challenges; Hughes Aircraft; IBM S360

Collection Title

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

Credit

Courtesy of Bruce Peterson

Lot Number

R0368.2017