Oral history interview with Robert E. Mumma, 1984 Apr. 19.

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Oral history interview with Robert E. Mumma, 1984 Apr. 19.

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Mumma describes National Cash Register's, later NCR, early years in the electronic computing industry. Mumma began working at NCR in 1939 in the newly formed Electronic Research Department. Before World War II he designed gas thyratron tubes for use as decimal counters in an electronic calculator. Mumma discusses the contact NCR had during this period with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Computation Laboratory, and reviews some of the early research projects and personnel at NCR.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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National Cash Register Company

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Computer industry executive. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert E. Mumma, 1984 Apr. 19. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306927 ...

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