Francis V. Wagner papers 1946-1985

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Francis V. Wagner papers 1946-1985

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The collection contains correspondence, notes, reports, manuals, newsletters, symposium and conference proceedings, photographs, and other materials relating to the Association of Independent Software Companies, the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), FORTRAN Automatic Coding System, IBM 701 programming, IBM 709 System Committee, SHARE, the Universal Computer-Oriented Language (UNCOL) developed by SHARE, Informatics General Corporation, computing at North American Aviation, and Univac's 1960 LARC seminar. Also included are an oral history transcript of Wagner from the Smithsonian Institution, material relating to a history of computing chronology, and an article about the history of on-line computing from 1967 to 1978.

1 box (1 cubic foot)

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.

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