Oral history interview with J. H. Wilkinson, 1976.

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Oral history interview with J. H. Wilkinson, 1976.

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Wilkinson describes his work beginning in 1946 under Alan Turing on the design of an electronic stored program computer with delay line storage at NPL. He discusses the 1946 decision to establish an Electronic Division in NPL and its early activities. He then turns to the contributions of Harry Huskey who joined the program for a year in 1947. He discusses the ENIAC design Huskey introduced, the small test model built during Huskey's tenure, and the strained relations between Huskey and Turing.

Sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 24 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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