Inside Macintosh monographs
Scope and Content Note
The Thomas Becker Collection of Macintosh Monographs includes guides and manuals for Macintosh computer use, including a number of volumes of the Inside Macintoshseries. The monographs cover the Macintosh operating system API, which was used on the Macintosh Classic, through the Macintosh IIci using the Motorola 680x0 series of processors.
Dates
- Creation: 1985-1992
Creator
- Becker, Thomas G. (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted. Access to individual monographs may require advance notice.
Copyright:
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Biographical Note
Thomas Becker is a senior software engineer at Seagate Technology. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an undergraduate, receiving his B.A. in Physics in 1984. He attended graduate school at Cornell University.
Extent
1 box (1 cubic foot)
Abstract
Collection includes guides and manuals for Macintosh computer use, including a number of volumes of the Inside Macintoshseries.
Acquisition:
The collection was donated by Thomas Becker in 2007.
Subject
- Apple Computer, Inc. (Organization)
- Title
- Thomas Becker Collection of Macintosh Monographs, 1985-1992.
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Stephanie Horowitz, 2007.
- Date
- 2007
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Charles Babbage Institute Archives Collecting Area
Elmer L. Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
612-624-5050
cbi@umn.edu
