Control Data Corporation records. Product manuals.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains Control Data Corporation (CDC) manuals and other post-purchase product information for specific computer hardware and software.
Researchers should consult the Control Data Corporation Product Literature series for marketing and advertising literature.
<emph render="bold">Acronyms used in this finding aid:</emph>
- ACE-S/C = Acceptance Checkout Equipment – Spacecraft System
- AUTRAN = Automatic Utility Translator
- CAMS = Computer Aided Maintenance System
- CDC = Control Data Corporation
- CDCN = Control Data Distributed Communications Network
- LSISYS = Large Scale Integration Design System
- TCOS = Time Critical Operating System
- ZAP = Zip Assembly Program
This is one series of the Control Data Corporation Records (CBI 80). Please see the other series finding aids for further information regarding the Control Data Corporation.
Dates
- circa 1957-1991
Creator
- Control Data Corporation (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
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).
Historical Note
Control Data Corporation (CDC) published hardware and software manuals to assist those who had purchased CDC equipment to run and maintain it.
Extent
69 boxes (66.7 cubic feet)
Abstract
This series contains Control Data Corporation (CDC) manuals and other post-purchase product information for specific computer hardware and software.
Arrangement of Collection
The manuals are arranged numerically by product number and/or alphabetically by name of the system or type of manual.
Acquisition:
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Control Data Corporation.
- Computer industry -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computer software -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Catalogs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Control Data Corporation Records. Product Manuals, circa 1957-1991. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by : Bruce Bruemmer and Kevin D. Corbitt, June 1997; Josh Knatterud-Hubinger, May 2003. Updated by Sasha Grossman, April 2006.
- Date
- July 2005
- 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
