Oral history interview with Ralph Slutz, ca. 1976.

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Oral history interview with Ralph Slutz, ca. 1976.

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Slutz discusses his involvement with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and SEAC computer projects. He begins with his electrical engineering education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his interest in differential analyzers. After completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1946, he joined the IAS computer project. He describes the factors that led to the decision to use a Williams electrostatic tube rather than an RCA Selectron tube for the IAS computer's main memory. In 1948, Slutz left IAS to work in Samuel Alexander's computing group at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). He describes the technical features of the SEAC computer built at NBS and the experiments made there to improve reliability.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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