Browsing by Subject "IBM AS/400 (Computer)"

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    Oral history interview with Ben Persons and Herb Pelnar
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2001-07-17) Persons, Ben; Pelnar, Herb
    In this oral history Ben Persons, most recently Technical Assistant to the Lab Director at IBM Rochester, and Herb Pelnar, retired AS/400 System Administrator, talk about their careers at IBM, focusing in particular on the development of System/38. Persons shares his experiences repairing World Trade equipment, contributing to the design of an underground command and control system for the Pentagon, and his work on TSS at IBM’s Yorktown research facility. Pelnar discusses his employment as a SAGE display system technician and in coordinating the RETAIN maintenance system. Pelnar also speaks about about his work coding System/32, and on the role and environment of the programmer within IBM before 1980.
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    Oral history interview with Dick Hedger
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2001-05-17) Hedger, Dick
    Richard Hedger begins the interview describing his education in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Following graduation he accepted a position at IBM Rochester in the optical character recognition group. He then discusses his shift to software development. Eventually he joined the Service and Support group developing application software supporting facilities infrastructures for the IBM System/3, and System/360. In various places in the interview, he describes some of the programming techniques in vogue while he was at IBM. He discusses his work in software for the System/32, System/38, and client server applications (attaching PCs to the AS/400). He talks about standards certification, e.g., ISO 9000. IBM people he discusses include Glenn Henry, Watts Humphrey, Ben Persons, and David Schleicher.
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    Oral history interview with Glenn Henry
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2001-08-07) Henry, Glenn
    Glenn Henry begins by briefly outlining his education and early work career prior to joining IBM. The majority of the interview focuses on Henry's work as a software systems engineer and manager at IBM in the 1970s. Henry was centrally involved in the software development and hardware definitions for IBM's early Midrange Series computers. He had managerial roles at IBM San Jose and IBM Boca Raton before leading a large team at the home of IBM Midrange Series hardware and software development, IBM Rochester. He details the programming effort for the operating System 3, the incremental advance with System 32, and the quantum leap IBM took with the development of System 38, a system Henry proposed--and one were the software was largely driving the definition of the hardware. The interview is particularly rich in detailing the relationship between software and hardware development as well as the technical and managerial successes and challenges with System 38.
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    Oral history interview with Judith Kinsey
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-12-03) Kinsey, Judith
    Judith Kinsey grew up in southern Minnesota and graduated from Wellesley College in 1962. She applied to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but also took the IBM Programmer Aptitude Test (PAT) and received a job offer from the Minneapolis branch office. She received extensive corporate training especially in the first years of her work. As a System Engineer she supported IBM sales in the manufacturing area, working out of the Minneapolis and St. Paul branch offices. With the coming of the System/360 she helped install these at customers’ locations by doing assembly-language and other programming. While raising children she was out of the workforce during 1970-76 then returned to IBM as Staff Programmer at Rochester, Minnesota, and then moved into management in 1980. She describes programming assignments, college recruiting, gender relations, and Rochester’s distinctive work culture. During development of the AS/400, she was Technical Assistant to the Directory of the Programming Lab at Rochester. In 1995 she took a position at IBM corporate (in Somers NY) and experienced the re-engineering of IBM under Louis Gerstner. She adds descriptions of efforts to encourage Girl Scouts in computing. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”
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    Oral history interview with William H. Murray
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-09-24) Murray, William H.
    In this interview computer security pioneer William Murray begins by discussing early work experiences and influences (his father was an IBM CE and manager, and his mother was a keypunch operator). The bulk of the interview focuses on his work at IBM in computer security and his reflections on developments in this field. This includes efforts with computer security at IBM SHARE, Bob Courtney as an early leader at IBM in this field, Horst Feistel and the cryptographic research group at IBM, MVS TSO, IBM’s MVS Integrity Commitment, TCSEC, and RACF. He also provides context to a number of his publications including his influential Access Control Facility for AAS and Data Security and Controls. Murray was an influential figure with ISC-squared and the CISSP security credential and the auditing and forensics sides to security (working as a consultant for Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young after leaving IBM). This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”