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The collection consists of lectures and published articles by mathematician Gertrude Blanch, other professional writings collected by Blanch, and some biographical material and personal and professional correspondence.

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This collection contains photographs sent to and acquired by Gordon B. Davis between 1966 and 1977. These photographs feature entire data processing system model photographs, computer system components and subsystem photographs, and circuit photographs, all from various companies (Burroughs, UNIVAC, Honeywell, Mohawk, IBM, and CDC, for example). Some of these photographs were used in books by Davis.

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Collection consists of subject files containing reports, memoranda, electronic mail print outs, and notes created by Gordon Goldstein as an electronics engineer and research administrator at the Office of Naval Research. Some of the material appears to have been gathered in his role as editor of the Digital Computing Newsletter.

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Monographs contain 7 boxes of books on various computing- and management-related topics, including database programming, database management, the relationship of computing to society, computing and the law, systems analysis, computing ethics, general computer programming, and general management.

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Collection contains bound proceedings from GUIDE conferences, various issues of the GUIDE Secretary Distribution, several editions of the GUIDE reference manual, issues of the quarterly and annual reports, installation survey results reports, organizational reports and managers handbooks.

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Collection contains two scrapbooks created by Harold G. Zahn documenting his employment at and retirement from the Burroughs Corporation. Scrapbooks include photographs of Burroughs Corporation employees including Harold Zahn, photographs of the company's move to their office on Market Street in San Francisco, invoices, and advertising cutouts.

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Collection contains the professional papers of Herbert Ohlman. Materials include publications, talks, correspondence, technical papers and audiovisual materials documenting his career in the computer and communications fields, as well as his development of permuterm indexing.

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Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, technical reports and notes, subject files, minutes, manuals, photographs, audio tapes, videotapes, publications, presentations, and a deposition related to Herbert Bright's work in the computer industry and with computer professional groups. Records from Philco and COMPLAN include chronological files for brief periods. Also included in the collection are some personal papers and photographs that partially document the period from 1924-1956.

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Collection contains correspondence, reports, draft presentations, newspaper clippings, notes, memoranda, National Science Foundation grant records, publicity materials, and mailing lists relating to the planning and organization of the conference. Also includes conference proceedings in the form of black-and-white video cassettes, reel-to-reel and cassette audio recordings, black-and-white photographs, slides, transcripts of presentations, preprints of papers, and book drafts.

Abstract The survey is a loose-leaf report originally bound as a ten-volume set describing small digital computer systems, most of which relate to military and aerospace applications. It was produced in 1970 and revised the following year. The survey, arranged alphabetically by manufacturer, contains information on computer systems of the 1960s and early 1970s, and reflects the systems of over 100 manufacturers. The report was compiled from other secondary sources, and claims to exclude any...

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Documents Multics development from 1965-1982. The records include the second MULTICS System Programmers' Manual that contains manual sections and revisions; MULTICS Technical Bulletins that describe procedures, applications, and problems, especially concerning security; and returned "Request for Comments Forms" that include technical papers and thesis proposals.

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Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, task force records, and committee agendas, minutes, and documents primarily collected by Theodore R. Bousquet. Part of the records appear to be files from Honeywell representatives to other standardization committees.

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This collection contains pretrial depositions, plaintiff exhibits, deposition exhibits, trial testimony, trial exhibits, the final opinion and judgement, and indexes from the 1971 Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand suit.

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The collection consists of corporate records of General Electric and the GE Computer Department, as well as materials gathered or created by H.R. Oldfield during and after his employment with GE and used in support of his 1996 book, King of the Seven Dwarfs: General Electric's Ambiguous Challenge to the Computer Industry.

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This collection contains records documenting I. Bernard Cohen’s involvement as a historical consultant on the history of computing. The material represented here includes proposals, layouts, caption texts and photographs documenting exhibits, company promotional materials, correspondence with and reports of fellow scholars and students, and photocopies of articles used for research.

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Collection contains a series of six volumes published by IBM as a result of the company's study in the early 1970s on computer security.

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Contains bibliographies on various aspects of information processing including computers, programming languages, information retrieval, information retrieval systems, machine translation, and data processing.

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Contains glossaries on various aspects of information processing including computers, programming languages, data processing, standards, control computers, and graphics.

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Collection includes IBM promotional videotapes (VHS and Betamax) from the early 1990s.

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Collection includes guides and manuals for Macintosh computer use, including a number of volumes of the Inside Macintoshseries.

Abstract Contains information relating to the Certificate in Data Processing (CDP), the Certificate in Computer Processing (CCP), the Registered Business Programmer (RBP), and the Certified Systems Professional (CSP) programs including minutes of certification council meetings (includes those meetings held under the auspices of DPMA before 1973), correspondence about and evaluations of certification examinations, and advertising and press releases, as well as correspondence, memoranda and reports...

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Preprints of presentations made at various Institute for Graphic Communication (IGC) conferences on computer printers, facsimiles, and copiers. Brochures outlining the conference are also usually included.

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Collection contains contributed papers presented at the IBM Petroleum Conferences in 1953 and 1955.

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Contains literature about hardware, software, systems, and installations in countries other than the United States, as well as descriptions of other countries' computing technology (regardless of where those descriptions originated). It also includes comparisons of different countries' computer technology, as well as reports involving multi-national organizations.

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Papers include a sample of IFIP conference and working group proceedings. The bulk of the papers are from 1986 and 1974.

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Collection includes an incomplete run of the ALGOL Bulletin, numbers 1-39 (numbers 9, 17, and 18 were not included in the collection), an ALGOL mailing list, a technical report, and a report on ALGOL 60.

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Contributed paper on Pascal for Program Structures and Fundamental Concepts Programming conference (1971) and published outline, address list, and lecture notes related to structured programming and Pascal from the Structured Programming and Programmed Structures conference (1973).

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the organizational records of the Internet Legacy Institute. Included are administrative records and original research into the history of the internet, information taxonomy, and the papers of the project's founders.

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Collection contains reports, presentations, research notes, and articles related to product design, quality control, and product planning for printers at Dataproducts Corporation and written by Irving Wieselman as a consultant on computer printer technology.

Abstract Collection contains documentation of Isaac L. Auerbach's activities in several professional associations, especially IFIP, his consulting, and other business activities. The IFIP records include materials about the biennial congresses and document the growth and activities of the federation; its relationship with other professional organizations is also documented. The AFIPS records focus on the History of Computing Committee and the Computer History Project of the late 1960s to mid 1970s,...