Oral history interview with Walter L. Anderson, 1986 Sept. 11.

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Oral history interview with Walter L. Anderson, 1986 Sept. 11.

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Anderson began with ERA in 1946. He was hired by Joseph Walsh and worked with Howard Daniels, Frank Mullaney, and George Hardenbergh on engineering design problems. Anderson discusses the influence Arnold Cohen had on him. In 1949 Anderson moved to ERA's Arlington office. There he worked with the sales office as a technical liaison under Herbert H. Goodman. He worked on development of the UNIVAC and the 1100 series, and he discusses some of the applications that he was involved in assessing and the technological constraints of the time.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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