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Princeton University. Institute for Advanced Study Computer Project
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1950-1957.
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0.7 Cubic feet (3 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0401
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the Electronic Computer Project, 1950-1957 at the Institute for Advanced Study. The goal of the project was to build a computer that would be a general-purpose postwar tool for various branches of scientific research.
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International Standards Organization (ISO).
Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Bemer, Robert M.
- Dates:
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1958-1979
- Size:
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4.6 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0310
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, reports, publications, meeting minutes, and bulletins of standards committees relating to ALGOL, COBOL, and the International Standards Organization (ISO) subcommittee on character sets (ANSI X3L2). The ALGOL records include correspondence to the ALGOL Maintenance Subcommittee (Association for Computing Machinery) and information a...
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Computing History Photographs
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1960s-1970s
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1416
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of black and white and color photographs and some negatives documenting computing history Photographs document primarily individuals, equipment, and computers being used.
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Bigelow, Elizabeth Merkelson
Bigelow, Julian
Princeton University. Institute for Advanced Study Computer Project
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1949-1961.
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0815
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, personal notes, articles, drawings, photographs, and published reports documenting the IAS Electronic Computer Project.
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Museum Computer Network
- Dates:
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1967-1988
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26 cu. ft. (26 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7432
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains the administrative files kept primarily by the executive directors. The records concern the daily operations of a nonprofit professional organization including preparation of the journal Spectra, planning for annual conferences and workshops, correspondence, grant proposals, annual reports, member surveys, and publicat...
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Smithsonian Computer Users Group
- Dates:
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1982-1991
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 10-161
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes a reference set of The Glitch newsletter. The newsletter, formerly known as The Micro Glitch, was founded by the Smithsonian Small Computer Group (SSCG) in 1982 to "provide a forum for the exchange of information about small computers." In 1985, SSCG was renamed the Smithsonian Computer Users Group (SCUG); the purp...
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Association for Computing Machinery. Washington, D.C. chapter.
Computers, Information and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1958-1978
- Size:
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0462
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Microfiche copies of the records of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, including council minutes, chapter financial records, and the chapter's newsletters, entitled COMPUTOPICS, covering the years 1960-1978.
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1988
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2 videotapes (Reference copies). 7 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9537
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Armer, Paul, 1924- (computer technician)
Computers, Information and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
SHARE (Association)
- Dates:
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1949-1970
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (15 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0323
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents computing organizations in which Paul Armer was active.
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Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Huskey, Harry D.
Larson, Harry
Rutland, Dave
More … - Dates:
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1946-1952
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1217
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents circuit development for the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). SWAC was an early digital computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles, California.