Francis V. Wagner papers, 1946-1985.

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Francis V. Wagner papers, 1946-1985.

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Correspondence, notes, reports, manuals, newsletters, symposium and conference proceedings, photographs, and other materials relating to the Association of Independent Software Companies, the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), FORTRAN Automatic Coding System, IBM 701 programming, IBM 709 System Committee, SHARE, the Universal Computer-Oriented Language (UNCOL) developed by SHARE, Informatics General Corporation, computing at North American Aviation, and Univac's 1960 LARC seminar. Also included are an oral history transcript of Wagner from the Smithsonian Institution, material relating to a history of computing chronology, and an article about the history of on-line computing from 1967 to 1978.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Wagner began his career as a civil engineer in New York City in 1938. In 1944 he accepted a engineering position at North American Aviation in Los Angeles. There he became a major advocate of using IBM punched card processing equipment for aircraft design and development. In 1952 he was appointed manager of Engineering Computing. After North American purchased an IBM 701 computer in 1953, Wagner helped found and later was president of SHARE, an early IBM computer user group. In 1962 he helped es...