Oral history interview with Robert L. Perkins, 1980 Feb. 13.

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Oral history interview with Robert L. Perkins, 1980 Feb. 13.

Perkins traces the beginnings of Control Data Corporation's (CDC) peripherals business from Engineering Research Associates through Remington Rand. He discusses the development of CDC peripheral equipment, especially disk storage.

Sound cassettes : 4 (90 min. each) : analog, mono.Summary transcript: 41 leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7816249

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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