Computer History Museum

Papers

Item Details

Level of description
Folder
Date
1955-1999 (Bulk), 1943-2002
Collection title
Robert (Bob) Bemer papers
Catalogue number
600000792

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785362
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Contains professional correspondence related primarily to Bob Bemer's work in his positons at General Electric and Honeywell. Attachments are retained where they were included.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785372
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Contains items collected by Bob Bemer that pertain to the history of text processing and standardization as well as the history of computers, ALGOL, software engineering, and ASCII.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785380
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Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785388
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Bob Bemer's memoirs folders collect documents related to his various activities and accomplishments over the course of his professional career, in addition to documenting moments in the history of computing that were relevant to Bemer and his colleagues and contemporaries. Contained here are materials he used for his 1982 article, "Computing Prior to FORTRAN," such as interviews and narratives of those involved in working with the program, a list of its early implementations, an annotated bibliography of publications concerning Fortran, and a reference manual.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785394
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Contains published articles, reports, and programming instructions written or co-written by Bemer, and includes indices listing the publications by date. Please see the attached PDF for scans of the indices. Papers listed in the indices but not physically present in the folders include 2-4, 12-16, 18, 24, 28, 30, 32, 35, 39-41, 44, 46, 48, 50-53, 62, 66, 76-77, 97, 100, 102, 103, and 107. Digital file -01 contains available papers 1-30. Digital file -02 contains available papers 31-60. Digital file -03 contains available papers 61-107.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785423
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Contains clippings, correspondence, and other materials related to Bemer's work and the history of computing.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785427
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Contains conference papers, presentations, and speeches, as well as writings in company and trade newsletters.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785430
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Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785444
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Contains presentations and scholarly articles written by Bemer and others.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785447
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Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785449
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Contains documents related to the Y2K conference held in Washington, DC in 1998.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785450
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Includes official government documentation, application materials, and receipts.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785453
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Contains printouts of articles uploaded or linked to Bob Bemer's website (www.wf.net/~bobbemer). These are organized in the following way: history vignettes, talks/articles, and travel records.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785457
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Contains an assemblage of clippings, photocopies of articles, coding and language information, correspondence, and memoranda related to the Y2K bug.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785459
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Materials collected by Bob Bemer relating to problems with character sets and text processing as well as unreliable hardware design. Also included are a collection of the "What Hath Babbage Wrought" column from Modern Data magazine.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785361

Contains awards given to Bob Bemer during his time at The Douglas Aircraft Company, interviews, and correspondence related to a cartoon Bemer submitted to an Annals of the History of Computing issue on the biographies of computer pioneers.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785363

Contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports related to the functionality of character sets and text encoding.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785364

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785366

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102785369