Computer Oral History Collection
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content: Coleman
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content: Cass, James
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content: Nelson, Eldred
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content: Miller, Frederick G.
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content: Menzel, Donald H.
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content: Metropolis, Nicholas C.
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content: Mitchell, Joel
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content: MITRE Meeting.
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content: Mills, Roger L.
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content: Skillman, Sherwood R.
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content: Taylor, Norman
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content: Tanaka, David
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content: Strong, Jack
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content: Smith, Charles V.L.
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content: TV Program KQED.
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content: Travis, Irven
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content: Todd-Tausskky, Olga
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content: Toben, Gregory
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content: Todd, John
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content: Wheeler, R.J.
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content: Whirlwind Discussion.
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content: Ware, Willis H.
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content: Wegstein, Joseph Henry
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content: Wagner, Frank
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content: Wang, An R.
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content: von Hippel, Arthur
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content: von Neumann, John
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content: Armer, Paul, 1924- (computer technician)
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content: Rabinow, Jacob, 1910-
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Computers, Information and Society
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content: Computers
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content: Engineers
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content: Mathematics
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content: Mathematicians
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content: Scientists
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content: The Computer Oral History Collection was a cooperative project of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and the Smithsonian Institution. This project began in 1967 and was concluded in 1973. This collection was transferred to the Archives Center in approximately 1986 from the Division of Information, Technology & Society, formerly known as the Division of Electricity.
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content: Brown, Gordon S.
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content: Bigelow, Julian
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content: Coleman
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content: Computer History Forum.
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content: COT Meeting.
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content: Couret, Lynn
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content: Campbell, Robert V.
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content: Campaigne, Howard
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content: Cannon, Edward
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content: Canning, R.G.
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content: Clem, Mary
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content: Cass, James
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content: CODASYL Meeting.
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content: Clippinger, Richard F.
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content: MIT Club Talks (Brown & Wiener).
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content: Andrews, Ernest G.
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content: American Federation of Information Processing Societies
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content: Alt, Franz
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content: Alrich, John
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content: Association for Computing Machinery.
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content: Association for Computing Machinery.
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content: Argonne National Laboratories R.
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content: Aiken, Howard
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content: Adams, Charles
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content: Acton, Forman
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content: Granholm, Jackson
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content: Israel, David R.
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content: Edwards, Walt
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content: Feign, David
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content: Farrand, William R.
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content: Fall Joint Computer Conference, 12/6/72.
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content: Fall Joint Computer Conference, 11/17/71.
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content: Miller, Frederick G.
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content: Menzel, Donald H.
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content: Metropolis, Nicholas C.
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content: Mitchell, Joel
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content: MITRE Meeting.
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content: Morton, Paul
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content: Mumford, Louis
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content: Mock, Owen
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content: Morse, Philip B.
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content: Wieselman, Irving
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content: Youtz, Pat
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content: Woo, Way Dong
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content: Woodbury, William R.
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content: Zuse, Konrad
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content: Slutz, Ralph R.
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content: Skramstad, Harold R.
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content: Skillman, Sherwood R.
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content: SIAM/SIGNUM Meeting.
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content: SIAM-72.
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content: SHARE XXXVIII.
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content: SHARE Meeting for Pioneers.
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content: Taylor, Norman
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content: Tanaka, David
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content: Strong, Jack
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content: Stibitz, George
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content: Steele, Floyd G. R.
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content: Sprague, Richard E.
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content: Snyder, Samuel
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content: Smith, Charles V.L.
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content: TV Program KQED.
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content: Uncapher, Keith
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content: Torfeh, Mark
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content: Travis, Irven
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content: Todd-Tausskky, Olga
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content: Tomash, Erwin
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content: Toben, Gregory
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content: Todd, John
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content: Wheeler, R.J.
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content: Whirlwind Discussion.
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content: Ware, Willis H.
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content: Wegstein, Joseph Henry
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content: Wagner, Frank
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content: Wang, An R.
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content: von Hippel, Arthur
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content: von Neumann, John
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content: Armer, Paul, 1924- (computer technician)
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content: Rabinow, Jacob, 1910-
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content: Computer Oral History Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Computer Oral History Collection (1969-1973, 1977), was a cooperative project of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and the Smithsonian Institution. This project began in 1967 with the main objective to collect, document, house, and make available for research source material surrounding the development of the computer.
accruals: label: Accruals
content: Approximately .15 cubic feet of material was added to the collection in January 2016.  The material consists of notes, clippings, articles, resumes, and other biographical documentation about interviewees.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Computer Oral History Collection (1969-1973, 1977), was a cooperative project of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and the Smithsonian Institution. This project began in 1967 with the main objective to collect, document, house, and make available for research source material surrounding the development of the computer. The project collected taped oral interviews with individuals who figured prominently in developing or advancing the computer field and supplemental written documentation--working papers, reports, drawings, and photographs. The AFIPS provided the "seed" money to support the project and to aid the Smithsonian with its expenditures. Interviews were conducted by I.B. Cohen, A. Dettinger, Bonnie Kaplan, Elizabeth Luebbert, William Luebbert, Robina Mapstone, Richard Mertz, Uta Merzbach, and Henry Tropp. In some instances, the audio tapes and/or transcripts are not "formal" interviews, but rather moderated panel discussions/meetings, or lectures delivered by interviewees.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 43.5 Cubic feet (158 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-1973, 1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0196
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Oral history
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Transcripts
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content: Videotapes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into six series.

Series 1: Transcripts, 1967-1973, 1977

Series 2: Supplemental Documentation, 1922-1974

Series 3: Patents, 1940-1973

Series 4: John Vincent Atanasoff's Materials, 1927-1968

Series 5: Audio Tapes, 1967-1974, 1977

Series 6: Video Tapes, 1968-1972
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison L. Oswald,archivist, March 1996; Revised by Alison Oswald, August 1999; May 2010. 

Charlie Bachman and William Olle kindly reviewed and edited the Conference on Data System Languages (CODASYL) Meeting transcript.
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content: Audiotapes
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content: Interviews -- 1950-2000
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content: Oral history
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content: Sound recordings -- Compact disks
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content: Transcripts
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content: Videotapes
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content: Interview Abstracts

For a brief overview of the interview contents and for biographical information on the interviewees, researchers should consult the interview abstracts. Not all interviews have abstracts.

Abstracts A-D

Abstracts E-G

Abstracts H

Abstracts I-M

Abstracts N-R

Abstracts S-Z
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of approximately 43.5 cubic feet of material documenting the development of the computer.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ABC -- Atanasoff-Berry Computer

ACE -- Automatic Computing Engine

ACM -- Association for Computing Machinery

ALGOL -- ALGOLrithmic Language

ALWAC -- Axel Wenner-Gren Automatic Computer

ARPA -- Advanced Research Projects Agency

BACAIC -- Boeing Airplane Company Algebraic Interpretative Computing System

BARK -- Binar Automatisk Rela Kalkylator

BINAC -- Binary Automatic Computer

BIZMAC -- Business Machine

BMEW -- Ballistic Missile Early Warning (System)

BUIC -- Back-up Interceptor Control

CADAC -- Cambridge Digital Automatic Computer

CALDIC -- California Digital Computer

CEC -- Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation

CEIR -- Council for Economic and Industry Research

COBOL -- Common Business-Oriented Language

CODASYL -- Conference on Data Systems Languages

CONAC -- Continental Automatic Command

COMTRAN -- Commercial Translator

CPC -- Card Programmed Calculator

CRC -- Computer Response Corporation

DARPA -- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DINA -- Digital Network Analyzer

DDA -- Digital Differential Analyzer

EDSAC -- Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDVAC -- Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

EAM -- Electric [or Electronic] Accounting Machines [or Methods]

ENIAC -- Electronic Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer

ERA -- Engineering Research Associates

ERMA -- Electronic Recording and Machine Accounting

FADAC -- Field Artillery Data Computer

FSQ -- Fixed Special eQuipment

IAS -- Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University)

ICBM -- Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ILLIAC -- Illinois Automatic Computer

INTERCOM -- Intercommunication System (Programming Language)

JOHNNIAC -- John [von Neumann's ] Integrator and Automatic Computer

JOSS -- Johnniac [John's Integrator and Automatic Computer] Open Shop System

LARK -- Livermore Atomic Research Computer

LAS -- Laboratories of Applied Science

LGP -- Librascope

MAC -- Magnetic Automatic Calculator/Multiple Access Computer

MADDIDA -- Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer

MAGIC -- Machine for Automatic Graphics Interface to a Computer

MANIAC -- Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer

MIDAC -- Michigan [University of] Digital Automatic Computer

MIDSAC -- Michigan [University of} Digital Special Automatic Computer

MINAC -- Minimal Automatic Computer

MIT -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MITRE -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment

MX -- Missile, Experimental

NATDAN -- North American Digital Anaylzer

NATPAC -- North American Programmed Automatic Computer

NDRC -- National Defense Research Committee [of Office of Scientific Research and Development, World War II]

NELIAC -- Naval Electronics Laboratory International Algebraic Compiler

NORC -- Naval Ordnance Research Calculator [or computer] [Naval Ordnance Proving Ground]

NTDS -- Naval Tactical Data Systems

ONR -- Office of Naval Research

ORACLE -- Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine

ORDVAC -- Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer [AEC]

OSRD -- Office of Standard Reference Data [National Bureau of Standards]

PACT -- Project for the Advancement of Coding Techniques

QUAC -- Quadratic Arc Computer

RAMAC -- Random Access Memory Accounting Machine

RAYDAC -- Raytheon Digital Automatic Computer

REAC -- Reeves Electronic Analog Computer

RECOMP -- Reliable COMPuter

RESISTOR -- Reusable Surface Insulation Stresses [NASA computer program]

SCERT -- Systems and Computer Evaluation Review Technique

SCM -- Smith Corona Merchant

SEAC -- U.S. Bureau of Standards Eastern Automatic Computer

SHARE -- Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort

SHOT -- Society for the History of Technology

SIAM -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

SILLIAC -- Sydney [version of the ] Illiac

SIMSCRIPT -- Simulation Script

SNOBOL -- String-Oriented Symbolic Language

SSEC -- Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

SUBROC -- Submarine Rocket

SWAC -- U.S. Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer

TPM -- Tape Processing Machine

UDEC -- United Digital Electronic Computer

UNIVAC -- Universal Automatic Computer

WEIZAC -- Weizmann Automatic Computer [at Weizmann Institute]

WISC -- Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer
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content: The Archives Center contains several "computer" related collections:

American National Standards Institute, 1969-1979

Association for Computing Machinery Collection, 1958-1978 (Washington, D.C., Chapter)

N.W. Ayer Advertsing Agency Records, 1889-1972

Paul Armer Collection, 1949-1970

Robert G. Chamberlain Numerical Control Collection, 1954-1984

J. Childs Numerical Control Collection, 1952-1970

Computer Standards Collection, 1958-1978

Computer World Smithsonian Awards Collection, 1989-2001

Data Processing Digest Collection, 1955-1974

Max Holland Machine Tool Industry Collection, circa 1941-1990

Grace Murray Hopper Collection, 1944-1965

Information Age Exhibition Records, 1979-1990

Institute for Advanced Study Computer Project Records, 1950-1957

Instrument Society of America Collection, 1911-1969

Odex I Walking Robot Collection, 1973-1986

Jacob Rabinow Papers, 1910-1917; 1947-1990

Terry M. Sachs Collection, 1965-1969

Scientists and Inventors Portrait File, circa 1950-1980

Share Numerical Analysis Project Records, 1964-1970

SHARE Records, circa 1954-1984

Cliff Shaw papers, circa 1954-1985

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Records, 1956-1992

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, circa 1754-1965

Whirlwind I Computer Collection, 1945-1959

B.H. Worsley Collection, 1946-1959

Within the National Museum of American History there are other related collections that may be found in the Division of Medicine and Science. These collections contain both artifacts and documents. Artifacts include: digital computing machines, automatic digital computers and electronic calculators, logic devices, card and tape processors, slide rules, integrators and integraphs, harmonic analyzers and synthesizers, differential analyzers, other analog computing devices, space measurement and representation, time measurement, and combination space and time measurement. Documentation includes the Electronic Computers History Collection and the Mathematical Devices History Collection. Photographs and video materials can also be found. The Smithsonian Institution Archives contains administrative documentation regarding the Computer History Project.