Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1983 Jan.-Mar.

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Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1983 Jan.-Mar.

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Cohen provides information about relations of ERA with the Navy, and with Remington Rand, later Sperry Rand, management after their acquisition of ERA. He also describes ERA projects in detail. Specific topics include: early research on magnetic drum storage systems, reports to the National Bureau of Standards, the Atlas I project and its commercial byproduct (the ERA 1101), the Atlas II project and its commercial byproduct (the ERA 1103), the ERA 1102 built for Arnold Engineering Development Center, the ERA 1104 built for Westinghouse/BOMARC, the Remington Rand Tape-to-Card Converter, the File Computer, and ERA non-computer projects.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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