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Guide to the Howard J. Cohen collection

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Oceanroutes program listings, Series 1, 1978-1986

Series Scope and Content

The Oceanroutes series contains program listings that reflect Cohen's work at the company. Oceanroutes specialized in knowledge of marine weather, waves, and currents, and used this information for two main services. The first was for recommending optimum ship routing to avoid bad weather and to optimize some aspect of the crossing, such as time or fuel. Oceanroutes also used the information to predict ocean wave statistics at fixed points in the ocean, usually where oil companies had or were planning to locate off shore drilling platforms. While the first models were created by hand, Cohen's team eventually developed a semiautomatic way to create a site-specific model. This series contains complete documented sets of code for the general "make model" system as well as for specific systems, such as the North Sea and the Indian Ocean off west coast of Australia. These materials were written in FORTRAN for use on Data General Nova and Eclipse minicomputers. This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

102784539 Australian model and generation code and documentation 1980-07

102784546 Australian model code 1980-1981

102784542 Canadian (Nova Scotia) model listings and maps 1985-11

102784541 Canadian 24-direction model 1985-09

102784537 CLI and utility scripts 1978

102784545 Grid generation code and documentation 1980

102784540 Make Model documentation and code 1982-1986

102784548 North Sea model code and documentation 1981-1982

102784543 North Sea model data tables and code 1985-12

102784547 Various OceanRoutes projects 1982

102784538 VESSIM code and CLI scripts 1979

Daisy systems program listings, Series 2, 1983-1986

Series Scope and Content

Founded in 1980, Daisy Systems was a computer-aided engineering company that specialized in electronic design automation (EDA). The company manufactured software for EDA used by chip designers to design and analyze semiconductor chips. From 1982 to 1987, Cohen worked in the physical layout division on products that facilitated the placement and routing of gate arrays and later for the creation of full custom integrated circuits. Daisy Systems ran the software on the company's proprietary workstations, which were based on the Intel 8086 family of chips. They used PL/M as their language for most projects, but towards the end of Cohen's work at Daisy Systems, they began using C. The program listings in this series date from 1983 to 1986, and contain a number of complete listings of various systems that Cohen worked on over the years. A small number of folders also hold related 8-inch floppy disks. This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

102784573 Daisy Systems documentation and manuals 1983-1985

102784575 Design rule checker (DRC)/Electrical rules checker (ERC) listings 1986-11-17

102784574 Elite database system (EDS) listings 1986-01-21

102785200 GGO system 1985-08-01

102784572 Mega place and route (MPR) project 1985-07-31

102785201 MKMOTO, version 4.0.0 1983-08-03

102784571 PIM system 1985-01-17

102785199 PINUP, version 4.0.0 1983-08-03

102784544 PLACE auto/interactive placement system modules 1983

102784570 PLACE system, version 4.01.00.01 1984-01-19

102785198 PLACE system, version 4.01.03 1983-10-19

Other program listings, Series 3, 1979-1981

Series Scope and Content

The other listings series contains small amounts of program listings from ENSCO and ROLM. The ENSCO software was a research project for a DARPA contract, where they developed statistical analysis software to determine real sources of sounds in the ocean, such as ships or submarines, as opposed to random noise. This series also contains program listings of Fortran testing code as well as code to have an IEC plasma display device emulate a Calcomp plotter, both of which are likely from when Cohen consulted for ROLM. This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

102784576 ENSCO M-out-of-N software project 1981

102784577 ROLM Fortran testing code 1979

Books and manuals, Series 4, 1979-1990

Series Scope and Content

The books and manuals series holds manuals, standards, reference books, and directories. Included are two IBM manuals from the early 1980s, a draft of the ANSI standards for the programming language C, a reference book about parallel processing, and Intel service and product directories from 1989 and 1990. This series is arranged chronologically.

102784579 IBM virtual machine/system product : system product editor user's guide 1980-07

102784578 IBM virtual machine/system product : system product editor command and macro reference 1982-03

102784580 Draft of proposed American National Standard for Information Systems programming language C 1986-10-10

102784581 Parallel processing : a primer 1987

102784584 Intel directory of consultants' services 1989

102784583 Intel literature guide, 3rd quarter 1989 1989

102784585 Intel directory of consultants' services 1990

102784582 Intel product guide 1990

Collection Contents

Oceanroutes program listings,

Daisy systems program listings,

Other program listings,

Books and manuals,