Computer History Museum

How APL\1130 came to be

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102636222
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A short history of APL's fuzzy comparisons

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102636225
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Includes George C. Morrow's resume covering the years 1960-1991.

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102722047
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102734093
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This folder includes part 1 of a manuscript on the history of Ridge Vineyard, a vineyard in Cupertino co-owned by Crane. The rest of the manuscript was not included in the collection donation.

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102734095
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This folder includes transcripts of interviews with Lee Felsenstein and Sandy Emerson, short essays by Felsenstein, and handwritten notes about Community Memory history.

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102734416
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102736891
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"These are my observations and impressions about China from my visits to the universities, institutes and factories in Peking, Shanghai and Canton."

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102737283
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This material came from folders previously labeled "DEC trivia," which mostly relate to general trends in the management of DEC. Included are writings about DEC's future, a study in DEC's corporate cultures, editions of DECWorld and Mgmt Memo, and task force reports.

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102737339
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102737361
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"The purpose of this series of papers is to show what the Digital Culture is, has been, and is becoming in the words of the employees who have been successful." The titles of these related papers vary, but one complete title is: "A study in corporate cultures - Digital Equipment Company the myth : a cultural operating manual."

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102737684
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At the time of this correspondence, this book was still untitled, but the following were tentative titles for chapters: "Computers People Can Use" "A Design for the Future: A Single Architecture" "People Work Best When They Work Together" "The Value of Openness: Digital, Our Customers, and the World"

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102737688
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This account, by George Comstock, co-founder of Diablo Systems, and Mike Weisberg, an engineer with Xerox and Diablo, describes the process of creating daisy wheel print technology.

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102738203
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In preparation for a pioneer workshop meeting on PC software conducted by the Software History Center in 2004 in Natick, Massachusetts, the organizers sent Dan Fylstra, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston questions regarding the history of VisiCalc. This was to assist them in preparing to participate in workshop sessions on the history of PC spreadsheets and for individual oral histories to be conducted with each of them by historians in attendance at the pioneer meeting. Dan Fylstra chose to write the following “white paper” giving his remembrance of the VisiCalc history. He covers how he got started with Dan Bricklin and how the product was marketed so successfully and then how differences of opinion between VisiCorp (Fylstra’s company) and Software Arts (Bricklin’s and Frankston’s company) eventually led to the downfall of VisiCalc.

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102738286
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Computer scientist and programmer Bud Lawson describes his experiences developing micro-programmed computer systems for Datasaab in Linköping, Sweden. Datasaab was the data processing division of the Saab aircraft company and an important shaper of Sweden's IT landscape for decades to come. The author's career also included years spent at IBM, Univac and others. His reflections in this account are centered on the origins and development of the 1972 Datasaab D23 mainframe computer.

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102738803
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Swiss Engineers in Early Silicon Valley I knew: Lessons for Strategic Management of a Fast New Growing Technology Domain Following a suggestion of Professor Patrick Aebischer, ex-President of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, one of the two major technical institutes in Switzerland and my alma mater, the paper retraces the exhilarating days of young Swiss engineers in Silicon Valley, the most illustrious being Jean A. Hoerni, one Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation's eight founders. I happened to start my technology processing career, in 1968, in a hot field: ion implantation doping at the Hughes Research Lab Facility in Newport Beach, California. Hired away from Hughes because of these in-demand skills, I plunged into Silicon Valley in 1972 at Intersil, a company started by Jean A. Hoerni, and was fortunate enough to observe and participate in the explosive growth of those early years. Besides going though some of the early process technology developments, the paper attempts to describe the evolution of the business models then, what made some of the companies hugely successful and others stagnate or fail. I then try to derive investment lessons for my current profession of venture capitalist, when confronted with explosive growth in a new high technology field. Finally, I attempt to describe the extraordinary work atmosphere between co-workers in semiconductor companies of the time, be they hourly operators, production supervisors, engineers or fab managers -- which made possible the success of many of these early semiconductor companies.

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102738807
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This account is divided into several sections, which each cover a period in the author's career. Phase 1, entitled "The Computer Industry," covers his work from 1959 to 1974, comprising IBM Datasaab, Univac and others. Phase 2, entitled "Computer Based Systems," covers work from 1974 to 1996, focused on industrial controls and power engineering; and phase 3, "Complex Systems, " (1996-present) details his work with ISO on software standards. The importance of such standards to robust software development is discussed.

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102738808
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Contains material on the following conferences and workshops from 1985: Freedon Fair '85; 10th West Coast Computer Faire; Waters Information Services Seminar The FM-PC Link: Data Broadcasting to Microcomputers.

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102739179
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Contains material on the following conferences and workshops from 1986:Silicon Valley '86 Computer and Technology Exposition; 11th West Coast Computer Faire.

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102739180
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Contains material on the following conferences and workshops from 1993: Portable Intelligence Expo; California State Superior Court-Bench/Bar/Media/Police Committee "Technology Impacts on Freedom, Privacy & Law or Justice on the Electronic Frontier:Civilizing Cyberspace"; Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA) dinner "Computers, Freedom, Privacy & Goverment"; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Awards nominating information for judges ; Libertarian Party of California conference breakfast "Civil Liberties on the Electronic Frontier"; Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP '93); Silicon Valley Chapter of the Forth Interest Group "Realizable Fantasies"; High Tech Criminal Investigators Association (HTCIA) Norther California Workshop; Government Technology Conference (GTC '93); Churchill Club The Future of Computing & Its Impact on Society; Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility-CPSR/Palo Alto newsletter & CA assembly Bill 1624 at general meeting; United We Stand America "USEFUL Public Access to Public Records & AB1624 for State Legislative Access"; Libertarian Party of Ohio convention "Computers, Freedom, Privacy & Goverment"; Association of Area Business Publications Summer Conference; East Bay Region Libertarian Party of California "Practical Information Access: The Tool for Controlling Government"; 1993 Ideas Festival (Telluride, CO); INET '93 International Networking Conference of the Internet Society; ONE BBSCON; Pac Bell Introduction to Computer Informations Systems class "Computers, Freedom and Privacy"; Correspondance from Hideo Yamagishi; Intellectual Property Section The State Bar of California "Software Protection: Pros and Cons"; Stanford Macintosh Users' Group (SMUG) "Civics Networking: An Overview plus USEFUL Access to Public Records"; Correspondance from Yoot Saito

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102739189
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