Oral history interview with Richard M. Bloch, 1984 Feb. 22.

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Oral history interview with Richard M. Bloch, 1984 Feb. 22.

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Bloch describes his work at the Harvard Computational Laboratory and his subsequent career in computing. He begins with his early life through his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Harvard. He entered the Navy in 1943 and recounts how he first met Howard Aiken while giving him a tour of the Naval Research Laboratory. Aiken had him transferred back to Harvard just as the Mark I was being shipped from International Business Machines (IBM), where Bloch was involved with programming and maintenance of the machine. He describes the architecture and operation of the Mark I, including a discussion of the improvements made after the machine arrived at Harvard.

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