Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith

Smith, Ovid M.
1985-11-07
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Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith

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1985-11-07

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Smith reviews his 46 1/2 year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company (later Burroughs Corporation). Subjects include: Burroughs calculators and accounting machines; Burroughs competitors, especially Moon-Hopkins and Felt & Tarrant; the Comptometer; Burroughs' marketing strategies; and the work environment at Burroughs.

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Ovid M. Smith, OH 244. Oral history interview by Mark Coir, Anne Frantilla, Mary Lou Rowe, 7 November 1985, Detroit, Michigan. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107635

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Smith, Ovid M.. (1985). Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107635.

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