Computing History Photographs
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1960s-1970s
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1416
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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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National Museum of History and Technology. Section of Mathematics
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1968-1974, 1980
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-068
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document projects and exhibitions managed or created by the Section of Mathematics. Topics covered include the Computer History Project (CHP), the Technological Augmentation of Cognition conferences, and the exhibitions: 1876: A Centennial Exhibition and Theorems in Color. The Computer History Project w...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics
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1956-1988 and undated
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12 cu. ft. (24 document boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 332
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include administrative files of the Division of Mathematics and its predecessors; Merzbach correspondence with computer industries, university professors, and pioneers or experts in the field of computing science; exhibition scripts, research material, and blueprints for the Hall of Mathematics; Computer History Project research ...
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National Museum of History and Technology. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1953-1978
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3 cu. ft. (6 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 279
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records of special projects in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), as well as throughout the Smithsonian, focus on several major activities, including the Computer History Project in cooperation with the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS), the bicentennial celebration of James Smithson's ...
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Smithsonian Computer Users Group
- Dates:
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1982-1991
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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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National Museum of American History. Department of History of Science
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1923-1980
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15.5 cu. ft. (31 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T90005
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of miscellaneous correspondence, fiscal records, annual reports, incoming and outgoing curatorial correspondence, personnel files, and records pertaining to the Computer History Project. Staff documented include Susan Faye Cannon.
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- Creators:
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National Museum of History and Technology
- Dates:
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1976-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1298
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and recordings relating to a conference held at the National Museum of History and Technology (now called the National Museum of American History) on October 23, 1978. The Conference was a joint effort by the Smithsonian, the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Data Processing Management Association, and the Washington, D.C.chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The collection includes: a program signed by participants; photographs taken at the conference; planning documents such as invitations to speakers to participate and responses to them, proposed guest lists, proposed agendas, press releases, minutes of the planning committee for the Conference; documents relating to budgeting for the conference; and audiocassette and reel-to-reel tapes of the conference.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Science, Medicine, and Society
Huskey, Harry D.
Larson, Harry
Rutland, Dave
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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.
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National Museum of History and Technology. Section of Mathematics
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1968
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1 cu. ft. (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 88-152
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of weights and measurements records. Materials include articles, clippings, photographs, lists of objects, and a small amount of correspondence. See also Record Unit 332 for Section of Mathematics records.
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International Standards Organization (ISO).
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics
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...