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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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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102737361
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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 1995: 1995 Convention of the Libertarian Party of California "How Citizens Can Pursue Practical, Potent, Net-Based, Computer-Aided Grassroots Political Action"; 1995 Annual Seminar of the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers; Hawaii Information Network and Technology Symposium (HINTS) "An Overview of Computer-Aided, Network-Based Government Access" and "Examples of Net-Based Government Access and Their Complexities"; IBM PC Club; Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ's) Freedom of Information Act presentation; Ties That Bind: Converging Communities - Community Network Conference; Fourth Annual ONE BBSCON; The Progress and Freedom Foundation's Cyberspace and the American Dream II (Aspen Summit '95) conference; National Association of Secretaries of State-NASS '95 and Administrative Codes & Registers (ACR); 1995 American Society of Access Professionals (ASAP) Annual Symposium: Staying Ahead in the Electronic Age; San Francisco Personal Computers Users Group (SFPCUG) "Computer-Assisted Government Access and Potent Grassroots Action Tools"; California First Amendment Coalition conference; Seybold San Francisco "Sex, Censorship & Cyberspace"; Electronic Democracy '95 Information, Technology and Electronic Communications: Working in a Changing World "Censorship and Content on the Information Highway"; Midpeninsula ACLU annual meeting "Big Brother and the Power of the Net"; League of California Cities annual conference "Public Records in the Information Age"; California Society of Certified Public Accountants, San Jose Chapter "Computer-Assisted Access to Government - Information, Officials & Power"; Issue Dynamics Inc. (IDI) Public Affairs and Public Relations Internet Workshop; University of California Berkeley Extension Ethics of the Internet conference "Surveillance and Censorship on the Internet"; Bay Area Internet Users Group (BAUIG) meeting "Using the Net to Empower Government Access and Grassroots Action"; Rally for First Amendment Rights. The folder for the "Ties That Bind" conference contains conference materials including "A Communications Strategy for Revitalization: Communications as Engagement" The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation

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102739198
1995 files

A collection of critiques and analyses of the decline of the Digital Equipment Corporation. Includes work by Paul Kampas, Peter DeLisi, Paul Ross, David Goodwin, Roger Johnson, and Gordon Bell.

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102740408
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Documents related to the life of Kenneth Olsen, co-founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation. Includes obituaries, a copy of the transcript of the Smithsonian Museum of American History's oral history with Olsen, memos, and photographs.

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102740409
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Presentation materials from lectures and presentations by Gordon Bell about DEC, computers, and computer history.

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102740418
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Talks, abstracts, papers, research proposals, and notes on a wide variety of computing topics. Many documents discuss the emerging global computer industry, including Gordon Bell's diary, notes, and reflections following his first visit to Japan in 1978, and a paper by Bell advising Brazil on the development of a computer industry.

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102740419
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John Zinchak's personal memoir of his contribution to the launch of GE's time-sharing service and of his career after GEIS. Donated by John Zinchak. 28 scanned pages.

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102762440
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Uri Berman worked with Pete Nordyke at Rockwell's Space Division on a massive parts list application for the Apollo space capsule. They had the idea of separating the disk access and recovery functions from the applications programs which accessed the data. Uri created Data Language/I (DL/I) which was also used with the program when it was converted to run as Information Management System (IMS) for the IBM S/360. IMS became a major program product for IBM with many thousands of installations and Uri was given an Outstanding Contribution Award with a large check attached. 3 scanned pages.

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102762458
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4 scanned pages.

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102762459
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Facilitators note: This is Dick's story about how NCSS got started from when he hooked up with Bob Bernard in 1967 until his being appointed President in 1970 at the age of 29. Donated by Dick Orenstein. 8 scanned pages.

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102762515
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Interview conducted with Tom Nies by Management First magazine in February, 2005. Donated by Cincom. 8 scanned pages.

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Catalogue number
102762520
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