Between Dec 19, 2024 and Jan 2, 2025, datasets can be submitted to DRUM but will not be processed until after the break. Staff will not be available to answer email during this period, and will not be able to provide DOIs until after Jan 2. If you are in need of a DOI during this period, consider Dryad or OpenICPSR. Submission responses to the UDC may also be delayed during this time.
 

Oral history interview with John Rankine

Rankine, John (L. John)
1980-09-11
Thumbnail Image

View/Download File

OHstubrecord.pdf (13.13 KB)

Persistent link to this item

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107604
Statistics
View Statistics

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Title

Oral history interview with John Rankine

Authors

Published Date

1980-09-11

Publisher

Charles Babbage Institute

Type

Oral History

Abstract

Rankine discusses changes in digital computing from card- programmed calculators to microprocessors and supercomputers. He explains how the move from electromechanical to vacuum tubes to solid state technology improved speed and decreased size, and describes the accompanying development of software. He reviews IBM's role in the transition of the computer from a scientific to a commercial tool. Finally, he assesses the possibilities of computing to improve various social conditions, as well as the danger of its threat to privacy, which he believes can be easily minimalized.

Keywords

Description

Transcript not available electronically. Please contact CBI.

Related to

Replaces

License

Collections

Oral history interviews

Series/Report Number

Funding information

Isbn identifier

Doi identifier

Previously Published Citation

John Rankine, OH 32. Oral history interview by George D. Green for American Business History series, 11 September 1980, Valhalla, New York. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107604

Other identifiers

OH 32

Suggested citation

Rankine, John (L. John). (1980). Oral history interview with John Rankine. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107604.

Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.