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Oral history interview with Robert Emmett McDonald
McDonald, Robert Emmett (Charles Babbage Institute, 1983)
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Oral history interview with Robert Emmett McDonald
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Issue Date
1983-05-04
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Charles Babbage Institute
Type
Oral History
Abstract
McDonald discusses the early years of Remington Rand in the computer business, including the management of Engineering Research Associates and Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company (acquisitions of Remington Rand), the rivalry between the two, their competition for funds, and their relations to the parent company. Other topics include the departure of ERA personnel to form Control Data Corporation; successful products; financial structure of Sperry Rand; collaboration with Bell Laboratories, Western Electric, and MIT on defense projects; Sperry's role in the 1969 IBM anti-trust case; and UNIVAC's involvement in the international market.
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Oral history interviews [439]
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other: OH 57
Previously Published Citation
Robert Emmett McDonald, OH 57. Oral history interview by James Baker Ross, 4 May 1983, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107482
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Transcript, 29 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95083
Suggested Citation
McDonald, Robert Emmett. (1983). Oral history interview with Robert Emmett McDonald. Charles Babbage Institute. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107482.
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