Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1987 July 2.

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Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1987 July 2.

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The interview focuses on Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Cohen begins the interview by briefly describing most of the early ERA personnel. He discusses his own work and that of C. B. Tompkins on various ERA projects including the Goldberg Project and the design of memory systems.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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