Rolland B. Arndt papers 1950-1991

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Rolland B. Arndt papers 1950-1991

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Collection contains AFIPS and ERA/Remington Rand records created in conjunction with Rolland B. Arndt's association with AFIPS and employment at ERA/Remington Rand. The AFIPS records include minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, computer printouts, financial records, subject files, and handwritten notes. The records document the financial history and board decisions from 1970-1987, the period that immediately preceded the dissolution of AFIPS. The records from ERA and Remington Rand consist of engineering log books documenting research on magnetic core storage at ERA and the NIKE-Zeus system at Remington Rand, correspondence, reports, and subject files. The 2011 accession contains assorted documentation on Univac and RCA as well as Arndt's patent and supporting documentation from the 1960s.

5 boxes (3.5 cubic feet)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6615113

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Remington Rand, inc

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Engineering research associates

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Early computer manufacturing firm. From the description of Engineering Research Associates records, 1945-1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62435921 During the Second World War, the Navy recognized that the computer, with its ability to rapidly manipulate data streams, was a natural tool for encoding and decoding enemy messages. In 1944 and 1945 it sponsored a number of research projects in this area. Its most successful unit was l...

Arndt, Rolland B.

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Rolland B. Arndt received his BEE from the University of Minnesota in 1948. Arndt worked as a development engineer with RCA Victor for two years before leaving to work on an MS at Stanford where he worked in the Radio Propagation Laboratory. After receiving his MS in 1952, Arndt worked for Engineering Research Associates (later acquired by Remington Rand). Arndt was active in the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and he served on numerous committees and on the board...

American federation of information processing societies

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The American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) was established on May 10, 1961 to advance and disseminate knowledge in the field of information science, and to represent member societies on an international level. The federation was an outgrowth of the National Joint Computer Committee, which was established in 1951 to sponsor the Joint Computer Conferences. One of the main contributions of AFIPS was its sponsorship of the Joint Computer Conference, renamed the National Comp...