Documentation on the Development of SPOOL
date: label: date made
content: 1966-1967
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
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content: This is a collection of notes, office memos, budget estimates and the like associated with the development of SPOOL (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line), a program developed at the Western Electric Columbus Works by David A. Studebaker and his colleagues in the period 1966-1967. A more detailed listing, using numbers introduced by the donor, is:
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content: 01 – October 7 1966 – Memorandum for Record RE: SPOOL
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content: 02 – notes on EMPS – handwritten
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content: 03 - SPOOL INSTRUCTIONS – photocopies and handwritten
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content: 04 – Project began – manuscript notes
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content: 05 – Memorandum of Record – January 3 1967 – Emulator and Multi-Program Supervisor (EMPS) – with October 20, 1966 & October 24 1967 memos
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content: 06 – SPOOL Programming System – November 3, 1967
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content: 07 – Mr. D. R. Mikes – January 11, 1967 – questions and answers concerning memorandum of January 3, 1967
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content: 08 – Printing and Punching 1401 System Output Tapes Employing SPOOL on the 360/40 System – Investigation Case Assignment – February 6, 1967
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content: 09 - Printing and Punching 1401 System Output Tapes Employing SPOOL on the 360/40 System – Investigation Case Assignment – February 6, 1967 – another version
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content: 10 – C-E-I-R Institute for Advanced Technology Certificate of Instruction in Computer Science – to David A. Studebaker for completing course in multi-programmed operating systems – April 7, 1967
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content: 11 – Memorandum for Record RE: SPOOL, October 7, 1966 – some overlap with 01, 18
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content: 12 – Western Electric 360/30 Installation Plan – 8/9/67 – photocopy
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content: 13 – Questions – coding sheets, undated
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content: 14 – Start SPOOL
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content: 15 – EMPS coding sheets – 2/67
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content: 16 – EMPS (PK SUBROUTINES) coding sheets – 1/67
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content: 17 – SPOOL INSTRUCTIONS – photocopy
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content: 18 – Memorandum for Record Re: SPOOL – October 7 1966 – compare 01, 11
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content: 19 – backspace file, etc. – [operation instructions]
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content: 20 – operation (of SPOOL) – handwritten
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content: 21, 22 – Investigation Case Assignment – 2/6/67 – compare 08, 09
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content: 23 – Bell System Program Routine – SPOOL
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content: 24 – RESMON Spool – no date
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David A. Studebaker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3067.05
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content: 2014.3067
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3067.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 22 cm x 34.3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 8 21/32 in x 13 1/2 in