Title
Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen
Publisher
Charles Babbage Institute
Abstract
Cohen provides information about relations of Engineering Research Associates with the Navy, and with Remington Rand management after their acquisition of ERA. He also describes ERA projects in detail. Specific topics include: early research on magnetic drum storage systems, reports to the National Bureau of Standards, the Atlas I project and the commercial by-product (the 1101), the Atlas II project and the commercial by-product (the 1103), the 1102 built for Arnold Engineering Development Center, the 1104 built for Westinghouse/BOMARC, the Remington Rand Tape-to-Card Converter, the File Computer, ERA non-computer projects, ERA's design contract with IBM and its relation to the IBM 650, UNIVAC II, and patents and their defensive use in litigation.
Previously Published Citation
Arnold A. Cohen, OH 58. Oral history interview by James Baker Ross, 20 and 28 January, 9 and 16 February, and 2 and 9 March 1983, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107220
Description
Transcript, 147 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95093
Suggested Citation
Cohen, Arnold A..
(1983).
Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen.
Charles Babbage Institute.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/107220.
