Oral history interview with Ben Persons and Herb Pelnar, 2001 Jul. 17.

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Oral history interview with Ben Persons and Herb Pelnar, 2001 Jul. 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62682790

Persons and Pelnar talk about thier careers at IBM, focusing in particular on the development of System/38. Persons shares his experiences repairing World Trade equipment, contributing to the design of an underground command and control system for the Pentagon, and his work on TSS at IBM's Yorktown research facility. Pelnar discusses his employment as a SAGE display system technician and in coordinating the RETAIN maintenance system. Pelner also speaks about his work coding System/32, and on the role and environment of the programmer within IBM before 1980.

Sound cassette : 1 (110 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 36 l.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7851633

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Persons was Technical Assistant to the Lab Director at IBM Rochester, and Pelnar is the former AS/400 System Administrator, also at IBM. From the description of Oral history interview with Ben Persons and Herb Pelnar, 2001 Jul. 17. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62682790 ...

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