Oral history interview with Uta C. Merzbach, 1980 Sept. 15.

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Oral history interview with Uta C. Merzbach, 1980 Sept. 15.

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Merzbach provides a brief overview of the history of electronic computing. She begins with the early projects in the 1940s that grew out of the need for advanced military technology, such as the ENIAC, the EDVAC, the Institute for Advanced Study computer, and the Whirlwind computer. She touches on the transition from military to commercial computers, with the UNIVAC of Eckert and Mauchly and International Business Machine's 650 and 700 series. She discusses early memory systems (mercury delay line, Williams electrostatic storage tube, Selectron tube, and magnetic drum) and how they were all superseded by the magnetic core in the 1950s.

Transcript : 13 p.Videocassettes : 2 (15 min. each) : U-matic, color.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Curator in Mathematics Division, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. From the description of Oral history interview with Uta C. Merzbach, 1980 Sept. 15. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63295569 ...

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