Oral history interview with Frank M. Verzuh, 1984 Feb. 20, 1984 Feb. 24.

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Oral history interview with Frank M. Verzuh, 1984 Feb. 20, 1984 Feb. 24.

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This interview describes early computing at MIT. Verzuh reviews his early life, his work on cosmic ray counters at the University of Denver, and his graduate work in electrical engineering at MIT. He discusses his work on MIT's Rapid Arithmetic Machine, his master's thesis on thyrathon tubes, and the effect of World War II on electrical engineering and computing at MIT. He provides information about other computing equipment built at MIT: the Mechanical Differential Analyzer, Rockefeller Differential Analyzer, Rockefeller Electronic Calculator, and Whirlwind computer.

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