Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). Component Development Section.

The documents presented in this collection are labeled "Section 16 Computer Group Memoranda." The "Computer Group" was a subset of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Section 16. Section 16, Component Development, was created in May 1953. In September 1956, Section 16 was transferred to Division 41, Guidance Research and Development, which was in Department 3, Guidance and Electronics. The bulk of the documents are the copies received by Allen D. Weeks, with several copies that belonged to either Russ Caplette or Ray Heacock.

Allen D. Weeks started at JPL in 1951. In 1959 Weeks was an engineer in Electrical Development. In 1962, Weeks was in Section 341, Flight Computers and Sequences, Guidance Control Division. By the early 1970s, he was in Section 361, Spacecraft Computers. This section was changed to the Spacecraft Data Systems in 1979. In 1985, the section became Section 348, still called Spacecraft Data Systems. Weeks retired from JPL in 1986.

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