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The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an archives and research center dedicated to preserving the history of information technology and promoting and conducting research in the field. The CBI Archives, a unit of the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections Department, collects, preserves and provides access to rich archival collections documenting the history of information technology. CBI’s historical research program, part of the University's College of Science and Engineering, fosters new understanding of developments in the history of computing, software, and networking; supports the work of scholars outside the Institute; and works collaboratively with individuals and organizations throughout the world.
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Item Oral history interview with Erwin Tomash(Charles Babbage Institute, 1973) Tomash, ErwinTomash discusses his work with Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Topics include: the firm's management, the roles of William Norris, Frank Mullaney, and Arnold Cohen in ERA, Tomash's development of West Coast marketing for ERA after it became a part of Remington Rand, competition with International Business Machines, the development of Williams tube storage devices and core memories, and the ERA 1103 computer. He also recounts his move from Remington Rand to Telemeter Magnetics, later Ampex Computer Products, the formation of Dataproducts Corporation and its subsidiary, Informatics Inc., headed by Walter Bauer.Item Oral history interview with John William Mauchly(Charles Babbage Institute, 1973-11-13) Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980Address given at Sperry Univac's 1973 Point of View meeting in Rome. Mauchly discusses his early use of computers at Ursinus College in weather prediction and his determination that calculators using vacuum tubes to function at much higher speeds were feasible. He recounts his move to the Moore School of Electrical Engineering and his failure to interest anyone other than J. Presper Eckert in his research. He explains how they were able to obtain funding to build the ENIAC, the first electronic digital calculator, only after proposing its use for ballistic calculations. Finally, he describes the funding of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation UNIVAC computer by the National Bureau of Standards.Item Reminiscences of computer architecture and computer design at Control Data Corporation(Charles Babbage Institute, 1975) Pagelkopf, Don; Moe, Robert; Lincoln, Neil R.; Krueger, Larry; Krohn, Howard; Kort, Raymon; Hutson, Maurice; Hawley, Charles L.; Grinna, Dennis; Bhend, Bill; Bergmanis, Maris; Alexander, CurtOrganized discussion moderated by Neil R. Lincoln with eighteen Control Data Corporation (CDC) engineers on computer architecture and design at CDC. Engineers include: Robert Moe, Wayne Specker, Dennis Grinna, Tom Rowan, Maurice Hutson, Curt Alexander, Don Pagelkopf, Maris Bergmanis, Dolan Toth, Chuck Hawley, Larry Krueger, Mike Pavlov, Dave Resnick, Howard Krohn, Bill Bhend, Kent Steiner, Raymon Kort, and Lincoln.Item Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 26 February 1975, Vol. 1: No. 1(University of Minnesota, 1975-02-26) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 18 March 1975, Vol. 1: No. 2(University of Minnesota, 1975-03-18) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 16 April 1975, Vol. 1: No. 3(University of Minnesota, 1975-04-16) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 18 June 1975, Vol. 1: No. 4(University of Minnesota, 1975-06-18) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 15 July 1975, Vol. 1: No. 5(University of Minnesota, 1975-07-15) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 29 July 1975, Vol. 1: No. 6(University of Minnesota, 1975-07-29) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 12 August 1975, Vol. 1: No. 7(University of Minnesota, 1975-08-12) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 26 August 1975, Vol. 1: No. 8(University of Minnesota, 1975-08-26) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 8 September 1975, Vol. 1: No. 9(University of Minnesota, 1975-09-08) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 23 September 1975, Vol. 1: No. 10(University of Minnesota, 1975-09-23) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 8 October 1975, Vol. 1: No. 11(University of Minnesota, 1975-10-08) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 27 October 1975, Vol. 1: No. 12(University of Minnesota, 1975-10-27) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 11 November 1975, Vol. 1: No. 13(University of Minnesota, 1975-11-11) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 25 November 1975, Vol. 1: No. 14(University of Minnesota, 1975-11-25) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 9 December 1975, Vol. 1: No. 15(University of Minnesota, 1975-12-09) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 22 December 1975, Vol. 1: No. 16(University of Minnesota, 1975-12-22) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., EditorItem Deadstart Systems Newsletter, 13 January 1976, Vol. 2: No. 1(University of Minnesota, 1976-01-13) University of Minnesota. University Computer Center; Lanzatella, Thomas W., Editor