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Computers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Association for Computing Machinery Records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 205
Abstract Records of this educational and scientific computing society founded in 1947 as the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, documenting its administration, operations, projects and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which represent virtually every major area of computing. The bulk of the records date from the 1960s through the 1990s, although some older materials, dating back to 1947, are present. Records are from the major governing bodies of the ACM including president, executive...
Dates: 1947-2009

Association for Systems Management. Twin Cities Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 146
Abstract

Collection contains meeting minutes from monthly ASM directors’ meetings, newsletters, membership materials, and a small amount of committee records.

Dates: 1973–1994

Burroughs Corporation records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90
Abstract

The collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Materials include corporate records, photographs, films and video tapes, scrapbooks, papers of employees and records of companies acquired by Burroughs.

Dates: 1880-1998

Burroughs Corporation records. Analysis of competitor products (competitive information) and competitors’ product literature.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 4
Abstract

The collection contains "Competitor Information" sheets, compiled by staff at Burroughs, which include information about competitor adding machine and computer companies and their products. The collection also contains product literature files on Burroughs’ competitors.

Dates: 1907-1971

Burroughs Corporation records. Defense, Space, and Special Systems group.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 29
Abstract

Collection includes the Independent Research and Development reports from 1965-1971 for the Defense, Space, and Special Systems group of Burroughs Corporation.

Dates: 1965-1971

Burroughs Corporation records. ElectroData Division records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 36
Abstract

Collection contains memos, reports, correspondence, and subject files and is arranged in series according to the origin or type of documentation.

Dates: 1952-1979

Burroughs Corporation records. Lyle Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 100
Abstract

This collection contains reports, photographs, speeches and correspondence relating to early Burroughs research and development activities in the Philadelphia area in which Thompson was involved.

Dates: 1948-1979

Burroughs Corporation records. Paoli area divisions records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 61
Abstract

Collection contains research reports and memos, covering many computers and other machines that Burroughs produced.

Dates: 1949-1977

Burroughs Corporation records. Press releases

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 72
Abstract

Collection consists of press releases (1947-1987) of the Burroughs Corporation that document their computers and other products, announcements, and employee promotions.

Dates: 1947-1987

Burroughs Corporation records. Product literature.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 74
Abstract

Collection contains manuals for a number of different Burroughs computer systems, including the B6700, the B7000/B6000/B5000 families, and large systems in general. They concentrate on the programming languages (ALGOL and COBOL), but also contain primers on CANDE, WFL, and the DMSII system.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within (Bulk: 1961-1982)

Burroughs Corporation records. Product planning records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 76
Abstract

Series contains survey reports of the accounting and data processing industry.

Dates: 1950-1973

Burroughs Corporation records. Scientific Research Society of America, Burroughs branch records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 86
Abstract

Collection contains yearbooks for the society from 1952-1957 and 1961-1962, a booklet with Information for Members, and a sheet of proceedings of the seventh annual convention of 1955.

Dates: 1952-1962

Burroughs Corporation records. Slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 91
Abstract

Contains 35 mm color and black and white slides documenting some of the activities of Burroughs Corporation from the mid 1950s-mid 1970s.

Dates: 1955-1978

Burroughs Corporation records. System Development Corporation records.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 98
Abstract

Collection contains the records of the System Development Corporation, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the System Development Corporation. It also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, product literature, technical literature, reports on systems engineering, systems design, human-computer interaction, and user interfaces, and a subject file.

Dates: 1946-1982

California Computer Products, Inc., and Century Data Systems, Inc., vs. International Business Machines Corporation records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 2
Abstract Photocopies of trial transcripts, trial exhibits, legal memoranda, and other legal documents relating to California Computer Products, Inc. vs. IBM Corporation. Although some items are missing from the collection, the records yield a complete picture of the lawsuit and issues involved. Also included is information about IBM's and CalComp's business practices, the practices of other computer companies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the "plug compatible" computer business based on IBM...
Dates: 1963-1972

Carl Hammer papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 3
Abstract Collection contains conference presentations, professional organization materials, articles and speeches authored by Hammer, publications relating to Hammer, diaries and photographs. Conference presentations (1955-1989) include speeches given by Hammer, correspondence, and conference ephemera. Many of his presentations focused on the future of the computer and the effect of computers on society and management. Records of professional organizations (1967-1986) include minutes, correspondence,...
Dates: 1946-1992

Edmund C. Berkeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 50
Abstract Contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, lists, reports, reference material, financial records, publications, posters, advertisements, photographs, and a videotape relating to Edmund Berkeley and Berkeley Enterprises. The earliest records in the collection relate to his insurance work, the applications of symbolic logic and computing machines to business, the formation of the Association for Computing Machinery, and his military service at Dahlgren. Later records focus on the publications...
Dates: 1923-1988

ENIAC Trial exhibits master collection

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 145
Abstract Collection contains 211 microfilm rolls of the plaintiff's and defendants' trial exhibits presented in the patent infringement case of Honeywell Incorporated vs. Sperry Rand Corporation and Illinois Scientific Developments, Incorporated. The microfilm are a combination of archival materials held at three collaborating institutions: the Charles Babbage Institute, the Hagley Museum and Library and University Archives and Records Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The combined master...
Dates: 1864-1973; (bulk 1938-1971)

Francis V. Wagner papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 6
Abstract The collection contains correspondence, notes, reports, manuals, newsletters, symposium and conference proceedings, photographs, and other materials relating to the Association of Independent Software Companies, the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), FORTRAN Automatic Coding System, IBM 701 programming, IBM 709 System Committee, SHARE, the Universal Computer-Oriented Language (UNCOL) developed by SHARE, Informatics General Corporation, computing at North American Aviation, and...
Dates: 1946-1985

George T. Jacobi papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 41
Abstract

Collection contains reports, brochures, articles, photographs, and other items related to General Electric's Power Control Simulator, ERMA (a bank automation system), AC Network Analyzer, Psychological Matrix Rotator, analog computing modules, the GE-150, Computer-Recorder for Radiosonde, and general computer operations.

Dates: 1948-1959

Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 1
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1846-1973; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1973)

John P. Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 14
Abstract Collection contains reports relating to the ILLIAC, ORDVAC, and the Digital Computer Laboratory, mimeographed lecture notes, a small amount of correspondence, and articles, all relating to the University of Illinois' computing activities. The articles and reprints include a two-page article on an ILLIAC-generated music composition, a review of computer progress for 1955 (by Nash), and an article with information about the ILLIAC written in Japanese. Also included are ONR Task 30 records and...
Dates: 1949-1957

Lockheed Martin records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 238
Abstract

This collection consists of the company administrative records for Lockheed Martin and its predecessor and subsidiary companies, dating from the 1940s through the 2000s.

Dates: undated, 1945-2013

Russian, Soviet, and Eastern Bloc computing collection

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 148
Abstract

The Russian, Soviet and Eastern Bloc Collection consist of materials that provide a picture of the development of Soviet computing and record Soviet impressions of computer development within the United States. While the bulk of the materials are from the former Soviet Union and Russia, other countries are represented, including China, Korea, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

Dates: 1956-1996

SHARE, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 21
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, technical reports, manuals, meeting agendas, published conference proceedings, publications, and administrative records of SHARE, Inc.

Dates: 1955-1994

Sperry Rand Corporation. Univac Federal Systems Division Univac Computers

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 129
Abstract

Collection consists of a compilation created by the Federal Systems Division to document their products from 1954-1968. The compilation, titled Univac Computers, contains computer characteristics descriptions and photographs of computers as well as charts showing the Federal Systems aerospace and military computer genealogies.

Dates: circa 1968

University of Chicago, Department of Meteorology numerical weather prediction survey records.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 36
Abstract

Collection contains survey questionnaire, replies, a list of institutions surveyed, and a final report of the survey conducted by the University of Chicago's Department of Meteorology of the worldwide status of work in the field of numerical weather prediction.

Dates: 1955-1956

University of Michigan Willow Run Research Center Special Course on Digital Computers records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 15
Abstract Contains notes and schedules that were intended as an informal summary of the special course. Includes laboratory exercises, answer sheets, explanations of special MIDAC programs, expositions of particular problems and machine techniques, excerpts from texts and articles, and notes from a course taught by John W. Carr III, "Methods in High-Speed Computation." Extended notes from the following instructors are included: Walter F. Bauer, Ralph T. Dames, Glenn W. Graves, Lyman W. Orr, and Norman...
Dates: 1952-1953