Oral history interview with Robert V. D. Campbell, 1984 Feb. 22.

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Oral history interview with Robert V. D. Campbell, 1984 Feb. 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63306937

Campbell discusses his work at the Harvard Computation Laboratory and his subsequent career in computing. He begins by describing his early life, through his graduate education in physics at Columbia and Harvard. He recounts how Howard Aiken chose him to work with International Business Machines (IBM) on the later stages of the Mark I calculator while Aiken was on active duty in the Navy in Virginia. Campbell describes what he learned from Aiken about the plans for the Mark I in the late 1930s and the arrangement reached with IBM to build the computer. He assesses the relative contributions of Harvard and IBM to the Mark I project based on his own experience at IBM's research facility in Endicott, N.Y.

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