Guide to the John R. Ehrman collection

IBM records, Series 1, 1965-1997

Series Scope and Content

This series consists of material published by IBM and collected by Ehrman. Many of the records in this series pre-date Ehrman’s career at IBM, which began in 1983. Types of material in this series include manuals, reference guides, books, technical reports, and course material and student workbooks from training and education internal to IBM. The IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 are well-documented in this series -- especially material relating to their operating systems and the Basic Assembly Language (BAL), which was used in programming the S/360 and S/370. Successors of BAL, commonly referred to as “Assembler” languages, are also prevalent in this material. Other technologies that frequently appear in this series include IBM’s RISC System/6000 (RS/6000), PL/I, High-Accuracy Arithmetic (ACRITH), FORTRAN, and FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler). Also included is a 1995 analyst report created by D.H. Andrews Group for IBM titled “IBM's Software Strategy.” This series is arranged chronologically.

102773955 FORMAC technical reports 1965

102773956 1054 paper tape reader and 1055 paper tape punch manuals 1965-1966

102773958 Systems reference library - IBM System/360 Operating System 1966-1969

102773957 IBM System/360 Operating System manuals 1966-1972

102773961 IBM System/360 principles of operation 1967; 1970

102773959 PL/I reports, technical papers, and course material 1967-1969; 1981; 1983

102773960 IBM System/360 student workbooks and course material 1967-1970

102773962 Number systems and introduction to IBM data processing systems student workbooks 1968

102773963 Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) for the Southern Pacific Company 1968

102773964 IBM 29 card punch reference manual 1968-08

102773965 Assembler languages programmer's guides and technical reports 1968-1982

102773966 Basic Programmer Training (BPT) course material 1969

102773968 Reference summary booklets and reference cards 1970-1994

102773967 More about computers 1971

102773969 Brief survey of languages used for systems implementation 1971-10

102773970 Training notebook for Information Management System (IMS) 1972

102773972 ASCII art from impact printer 1972-1974

102773973 IBM System/370 principles of operation 1973; 1981-1987

102773974 Introduction to the IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS) 1975-1977

102773975 IBM internal course on processor architecture 1978

102773971 Compiler design course material ca. 1978

102773976 System/370 Fortran H extended 1980-1981

102773977 Vocabulary for data processing, telecommunications, and office systems 1981-07

102773978 A personal history of APL 1982-10

102773979 Extended exponent range for FORTRAN users 1984

102773980 GUIDE/SHARE Language Futures Task Force final report 1984-11

102773981 IBM high-accuracy arithmetic (ACRITH) guides and descriptions 1984-1990

102773982 Vectorization and vector migration techniques 1986-06

102773983 Programming process architecture workflow chart 1986-10

102773984 Engineering and scientific subroutine library 1988-11

102773985 IBM's software strategy 1995-12

102773986 RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) guides 1995-1997

102773987 National language design guide : designing internationalized products 1996-10

Stanford University technical reports and manuals, Series 2, 1966-1982

Series Scope and Content

This series comprises technical reports and manuals published by Stanford University while Ehrman worked there. Material dates from 1966 to 1982 and is from the Computation Center, Computer Science Department, Electrical Engineering Department, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Half of the material is related to three subjects: ACME (Advanced Computer for Medical Research), a time-sharing system developed by the Stanford Computation Center for the Stanford School of Medicine; typesetting and typography programming; and the programming language MORTRAN. Other topics include FORTRAN, algebraic algorithms, floating point systems, and programming. There are also two reports that present the questions and solutions from Stanford University's Computer Science Department comprehensive examinations from 1972 to 1978 and qualifying examinations from 1965 to 1978. Donald E. Knuth, Gio Wiederhold, Christopher J. Van Wyk, and Charles T. Zahn are the authors of many of the reports. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

102773530 ACME technical notes and manuals 1966-1975

102773539 Brief survey of computer languages for symbolic algebraic manipulation, A 1968

102773531 Comprehensive and qualifying examinations in computer science 1978-1979

102773532 Floating-point technical reports 1967-04

102773533 MORTRAN technical papers and manuals 1973-1982

102773528 Other Stanford University Computer Science Department technical reports 1971; 1979; 1981

102773535 Programming and problem-solving seminar proceedings 1977-04; 1979-12

102773536 Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory technical reports 1970; 1976-11

102773537 Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory technical reports 1978-1980

102773529 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) technical reports 1972; 1974

102773538 Typesetting and typography technical reports 1978-1980

SHARE records, Series 3, 1964-2005

Series Scope and Content

This series contains material collected or created by Ehrman from 1964 to 2005 while he was a member of SHARE. A quarter of the material is related to SHARE’s involvement in the development of FORTRAN, including a presentation on the 25th anniversary of FORTRAN by IBM’s Elliott Nohr, issues of the SHARE Fortran Project Newsletter, and FORTRAN program libraries. Another large part of this series is made up of material collected for use during SHARE's 20th, 30th, and 50th anniversaries, including proceedings from the first three SHARE meetings in 1955, a brief history of SHARE and its meetings, reminiscences of past SHARE meetings, and a transcript from the 1972 SHARE Meeting of Pioneers. Also included are reports and papers published by SHARE, and SHARE songbooks, which were used at the Esprit de Corps session, known as the SHARE or HASP sing-along, at annual SHARE meetings and include familiar songs with the lyrics rewritten so they are related to SHARE and HASP. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

102773520 Bumper sticker undated

102773523 Program library 1964-1968

102773527 Reports and papers 1969-1980

102773519 SHARE background information 1972-2005

102773518 SHARE Europe (SEAS) booklets 1989; 1992

102773526 SHARE Fortran 25th anniversary presentation 1982

102773525 SHARE Fortran project newsletter 1971; 1985-1996

102773521 SHARE songbooks 1989-1992

102773522 Strategic concerns of the members of SHARE booklets 1990-1992

Other organizations records, Series 4, 1956-1991

Series Scope and Content

This series contains material collected by Ehrman that was published by companies, associations, and institutions other than those represented in the first three series of the collection. Material dates from 1956 to 1991. The majority of material is made up of manuals, specifications, and technical reports, but there are also books, program listings, conference proceedings, catalogs, and newsletters. Topics vary, but most of the material is about FORTRAN and related languages, computer design, and programming. Much of the material was published by universities, including an IBM 7090 program library from the University of Illinois; University of Michigan Terminal System program descriptions and manuals; and FORTRAN-related specifications and manuals from Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of British Columbia. There are a large number of technical reports from Bell Laboratories, and a smaller number from Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, University of Illinois, University of California at Santa Cruz, and other organizations. The Association for Computing Machinery has a large number of newsletters in this series from it SIGSAM and FORTRAN groups. Xerox PARC, Raytheon, Terrapin, and Microsoft all have material in this series, as well. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

102773545 Argonne National Laboratory technical reports 1966-1967

102773543 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) newsletters 1966-1991

102773548 Augment precompiler technical summary reports 1976; 1979

102773568 Basic machine principles 1972

102773566 Bell Laboratories computing science technical reports 1972-1981

102773552 CFORMAC : Conversational FORMAC main program 1983-08

102773550 Computer design evaluation using programming language primitives 1973-12

102773561 Computer power and human reason : from judgment to calculation 1976

102773556 FORTH dimensions newsletter 1980-03

102773567 FORTH Inc. promotional package 1973

102773557 FORTUNE manual 1972

102773558 Guide to LSI implementation, A 1980-01

102773544 IF interactive FORTRAN compiler 1973-1979

102773549 Industrial Real-Time FORTRAN (IRTF) standard draft 1981

102773546 Los Alamos National Laboratory technical reports 1970; 1972

102773562 Merrill's expanded guide to computer performance evaluation using the SAS system 1990

102773554 Microsoft Applesoft compiler system for Apple II 1983

102773542 MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory memos 1970-1971

102773541 NATO Science Committee software engineering conference reports 1969-1970

102773540 R:BASE 3.1 : relational database concepts in practice 1991

102773565 REDUCE 2 manual 1973-03

102773555 Research in machine-independent software programming 1968-12-21

102773547 System Development Corporation product descriptions 1970; 1974

102773559 Terrapin Logo language for the Apple II : tutorial 1983

102773553 Tube, transistor, and diode descriptions 1956

102773564 University of Illinois Digital Computer Laboratory IBM 7090 program library 1962

102773563 University of Illinois manuals and technical reports 1962-02-12; 1969-12-01

102773534 University of Michigan Terminal System (MTS) 1976-1977

102773551 Using the CMS System Product Interpreter 1986

102773560 West of Eden : the end of innocence at Apple Computer 1989