Oral history interview with Richard Vincent, 1983 Mar. 8.

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Oral history interview with Richard Vincent, 1983 Mar. 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63276373

Vincent review his involvement with computing from 1949 to the early 1970s. He relates how he first learned about computers in Air Force punch card operator school and ran International Business Machines (IBM) punched card machines during the Korean War. Vincent joined International Harvester after the war, operating an IBM 602A and later one of the first IBM 705 computers. He discusses the problems with the 705 and the field support offered by IBM. In 1959 Vincent joined Montgomery Ward, where he operated an IBM 650, an early drum computer.

Sound cassettes : 2 (90 min. each) : analog, mono.Transcript : 64 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884781

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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