Dumey, Arnold2011-06-212011-06-211984-10-09Arnold Dumey, OH 88. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 9 October 1984, Cranbury, New Jersey. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107760OH 88https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107760Transcript, 32 pp.The Dumey interview begins with a description of his work for the Army Signal Corps during World War II. He discusses the development of a system for comparing data for which Eastman Kodak supplied a contrast reversal film process and Reed Research a reading device. He also considers some of the problems inherent in working for a secret organization. In the post-war period, he focuses on the contractual work done by Engineering Research Associates for the Navy, emphasizing their engineering excellence and the leverage that their competitive position gave him in his negotiations for the Navy with IBM. He highlights the roles of John L. Hill and William Norris in ERA, and contrasts the ERA 1101 with the Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC). He concludes with a discussion of the obsolescence of electrostatic tube and delay-line memory devices with the introduction of magnetic cores.en-USComputer historyUnited States. -- Army. -- Signal Corps.Seac computerReed Research (Firm)Norris, William C., 1911-International Business Machines Corporation.Hill, John L. (John Lindsay), 1909-ERA 1101 (Computer)Engineering Research AssociatesComputer industry -- United States -- HistoryUnited States. -- NavyOral History