1185 Design is a Silicon Valley brand agency founded by Peggy Burke in 1985. The 1185 Design records consist of material created for the agency’s clients between 1985 and 2017. The majority of the collection is made up of “initial...

The Dal Allan collection ranges in date from 1970 to 1997 and holds documentation pertaining to mass storage and disk drives. About half of the collection consists of conference and forum proceedings from data storage conferences between 1987 and 1996....

The Steve Allen photographs of Fairchild Semiconductor contains photographs of professional photographer Steve Allen, a Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor Corporation employee from 1966 through about 1997. The collection documents executive employees, sales force, fabrication facilities, and products of Fairchild...

The Dennis R. Allison collection, ranging in date from 1967 to 2000, holds technical reports, publications, manuals, program listings, promotional material, software, and A/V materials. The collection is wide-ranging, reflecting Allison's work as a lecturer and consultant. About half of...

The Altera Corporation records contain printed materials, software, and audiovisual material ranging in date from 1983 until 2011. The bulk of the records are made up of printed materials, including product literature, financial reports, manuals, press releases and clippings, and...

Gene M. Amdahl's papers include design drawings, correspondence, and research related to early Amdahl inventions, including the WISC (Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer). The Amdahl papers primarily consist of clippings that feature Amdahl or the Amdahl Corporation. The collection covers the...

The Einar K. Anderson collection, which ranges in date from 1971 to 1995, contains material related to working with microcomputers, with a quarter of the collection consisting of an Alpha Micro documentation library. About half of the collection is made...

The Paul Armer papers consist of documentation, subject files, and printed materials pertaining to Armer's professional interest in the relationship between computers and society. The collection includes journals, correspondence, handwritten notes, and clippings, as well as published material such as...

The Jim Armstrong collection of Apple materials is made up of items Armstrong collected related to Apple Computer, Inc., where he worked in a variety of roles from 1983 to 1997. Included are manuals, internal Apple documents, periodicals and books,...

The Arthur W. Astrin papers, ranging in date from 1965 to 2002, contain materials related to Astrin’s career as an engineer and executive at Unicomp, Intersil, Rolm Corporation, Memorex, and Apple. The collection includes technical reports, presentation materials, design drawings,...

The Dennis Austin PowerPoint records contain materials assembled, and mostly authored, by Dennis Austin as a key designer and developer of the slide show presentation software, PowerPoint. The records span 1984 through 2007 with the bulk of the collection being...

The Jay Beck collection is made up of printed material including articles, product advertisements and brochures, price data, and product specifications. The collection focuses on computer systems, hardware graphics systems, software graphics, CAD, CAE, graphic arts, networking, and languages.

This rare and important collection comprises written works and physical objects relating to early calculating instruments and methods. With material dated between 1541 and 2000, the collection offers researchers a unique window into the early origins and development of history’s...

The Robert (Bob) Bemer papers, ranging in date from 1943 to 2001, with the bulk between 1955 and 1959, trace Bemer’s career in programming at IBM, Rand Corporation, General Electric, and Honeywell, Inc., as well as his personal interest in...

The Edmund C. Berkeley papers consist of records related to Simon the mechanical brain. There is also a small amount of material related to robots, including Squee: the Robot Squirrel. Types of materials in the collection include technical notes, specifications,...

The David Bohnett papers hold materials related to GeoCities as well as other ventures by Bohnett between 1996 and 2005. Types of materials found throughout the collection include correspondence, business plans and projections, executive summaries, merger and acquisition documentation, board...

The Gary Boone papers focus on microprocessor inventor Gary Boone's work as a chip designer, primarily as it pertains to patents on which he was named. While employed at Texas Instruments, Boone worked on two pioneering chips: the TMX-1795 and...

The Charles Bourne papers, ranging in date from 1947 to 2016, consist of materials related to Bourne's pioneering career in the database and information retrieval industry, including his work at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), UC Berkeley, and Dialog...

The Alfred E. Brenner papers, ranging in date from 1962 to 2010, contain technical and business documents pertaining to high performance computers collected during Brenner's career at institutions such as Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Consortium for Scientific Computing, and...

The Lawrence C. Brown papers range in date from 1953 to 1993 and contain technical reports, manuals, internal memos, correspondence, and a small amount of software and photographic materials. About half of the collection pertains directly to Brown's early work...

The G. Edward Bryan collection on the CP-6 system contains material on the Honeywell CP-6 operating system and the team that built it at the Los Angeles Development Center (LADC). In an effort to attract Xerox CP-V users to Honeywell...

The Thomas J. Buckholtz, Raymond DeSaussure, and George Michael Computer Manual Collection at the Computer History Museum is comprised of manuals and promotional materials from a wide variety of computer-related companies and institutions. The Collection covers 1950 through 1990, encompassing...

The Burton Grad Associates, Inc. records contain documentation from the consulting firm for software and services companies owned and operated by Burt Grad from 1978 through the early 2000s. Grad and his associates completed hundreds of short term projects for...

The Keith G. Calkins collection on Sigma systems consists of material documenting the Sigma computers developed and released by Scientific Data Systems (SDS), Xerox, Honeywell, Inc., and Telefile Computer Products. The collection holds records from all of these companies as...

The Ned Chapin papers, ranging in date from 1955 to 1995, consist of published manuals and documentation, technical reports, conference proceedings, data sheets, brochures, books, and software. The bulk of the papers consist of manuals, technical documentation, and data sheets...

The CHM packaged software collection contains commercially produced software primarily for the personal computer dated between 1962 and 2003.

The Howard J. Cohen collection contains hard copy listings of software from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as reference books, manuals, directories, and a small number of floppy disks. Ranging in date from 1978 to 1990, the collection traces...

The Collection of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computing Projects is comprised of technical notes, reports, correspondence and miscellaneous documentation relating to the development of the Whirlwind, TX-0 and T-X2 computers as well as Project MAC (Multiple-Access Computer) at MIT....

The Community Memory records are made up of material from 1974 to 2000, with the bulk from 1974 to 1991, that document the development and implementation of the first computer-based public bulletin board, Community Memory (CM), which was created and...

The Company Collection of Computing Manuals and Marketing Materials at the Computer History Museum is comprised of catalogs, correspondence, design drawings, manuals, program listings, promotional materials, specifications, technical notes and technical reports from a wide variety of computer-related companies and...

The Computer Law Association records document the organization from 1982 to 2005. The CLA was created in 1971 to provide a forum for lawyers practicing or interested in computer and telecommunications law to network, share information, and discuss current legal...

The Computer Museum (TCM) records contain the remaining records of TCM from its inception in the early 1970s through the various stages of its life in Maynard, Massachusetts, Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, and Moffett Field, and Mountain View, California in...

The Hewitt D. Crane papers document Crane’s time as an engineer and inventor at Stanford Research Institute (later renamed SRI International), from 1956 to 2005. Included in the collection are materials related to some of the systems and products he...

The Frank da Cruz Kermit records consist of organizational and administrative materials related to Columbia University’s Kermit project, documents that provide a historical context to the project, Kermit books and manuals published by Frank da Cruz and his colleagues, press...

The Paul R. DesJardins collection documents DesJardins’s career as a programmer, with material dating from 1947 to 2003, and the bulk from 1956 to 1993. A large portion of the collection is related to the development of the time-sharing system...

The Collection of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 Computer Materials is comprised of program listings, manuals, technical papers, promotional materials, design drawings and photographs regarding the PDP-1 digital computer spanning 1959 to 1983.

The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) records comprise DEC's corporate archives, with material dating from 1947 to 2002. The bulk of the collection was collected and created during the company's years of operation from 1957 to 1998. DEC, founded by engineers...

The John Dirnberger CDC collection consists of Control Data Corporation (CDC) technical reports, memos, manuals, and design documents, as well as a small amount of materials published by other companies. The materials range in date from 1965 to 1988. Much...

The Esther Dyson papers contain material that documents Dyson’s career analyzing and creating projections on emerging technologies with her newsletter Release 1.0, and her interest and investment in tech start-ups with her venture capitalism firm EDventure Holdings. The collection dates...

The John R. Ehrman collection documents Ehrman’s work in programming at IBM and Stanford University, and his membership with SHARE, an early user group for programmers of IBM mainframe computers. Material dates from 1956 to 2005, with the bulk from...

The Kenneth Einstein papers, which range in date from 1975 to 2001, hold materials related to Einstein's career at Ansa Software and Borland International, as well as records from his consulting work. The collection can be divided into four parts:...

The Mark Ellson collection of brochures and product specifications includes printed material pertaining to superminicomputers, minicomputers, workstations, processors, and memory systems published between 1980 and 1994. Ellson collected and retained these materials for use as reference files when making equipment...

The Collection of Fairchild Semiconductor employee papers contains professional papers of early Fairchild Semiconductor employees Geri Hadley, Hazel White, Robert K. Waits and Lars Lunn. The collection does not contain any official corporate records of the company. The collection spans...

The David C. Faloon papers consist of promotional and sales materials, product information, punched card designs, training materials, personal notes, and photographs pertaining to his work for Remington Rand's UNIVAC division, and later, Sperry Rand Corporation's UNIVAC division.

The Edward Feustel collection on the Rice University Computer Project (formerly Rice Institute) contains material collected by Feustel while he was employed at Rice University and Prime Computer. The collection spans 1958 to 1989, with some undated material. The material...

The First Osborne Group (FOG) records contain software and documentation created primarily between 1981 and 1993. This material was created or authored by FOG members for other members using hardware compatible with CP/M and later MS and PC-DOS software. The...

The Fortran Standardization records are primarily made up of the documents used by groups creating and proposing standards for the Fortran computer programming language as used in the United States (ANSI) and internationally (ISO). This collection also includes Fortran publications...

The George Glaser collection is made up of subject files related to BEA Systems, voice recognition technologies, Y2K, the semiconductor industry, technology industry lawsuits, and various other topics. It contains articles, periodicals and reprints, product literature, catalogs, price lists, technology...

The Adele Goldberg papers consist of Goldberg’s working files related to the development and licensing of Smalltalk, a programming language she co-developed at Xerox PARC, plus periodicals, books, manuals, conference material, and reports related to object-oriented programming and other computer...

The Mark Goldstein papers consist of manuals, catalogs, product advertisements, articles and clippings, newsletters, and reference sheets for microcomputer products from the 1970s and 1980s. A significant portion of the material pertains to hardware, peripheral hardware, and software for the...

This collection contains records from Burt Grad’s work with General Electric and IBM from 1949-1978. Grad did substantial work on factory automation and business systems management, reflected in large projects called the Integrated Systems Project (ISP) and the Study Organization...

The Thomas Gross papers trace Gross's early career working on computer science projects at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University. The collection, which ranges in date from 1977 to 1993, consists of technical reports, memos, and notes. About half of...

The Victor W. D. Hale papers consist of two series - one devoted to the Conference on high-speed automatic calculating machines held at the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory June 22-25, 1949, and one consisting of papers relating to EDSAC from...

The Mark Halpern papers consists of technical papers and reports, conference proceedings, manuals, the majority of which were published by IBM, and periodicals that document programming languages and computer technologies from 1955 through 1990, with the bulk of the material...

The Hitachi Global Storage Technologies collection on IBM hard disk storage consists of manuals, promotional material, technical reports, internal memos, presentation materials, and conference proceedings ranging in date from 1955 to 1992. Approximately half of the collection contains documents organized...

The Linder Charlie Hobbs collection, ranging in date from 1958 to 1982, consists of documents related to minicomputers, computer memory, military computers, graphics terminals, timesharing systems, semiconductors, and the computer industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Types of materials include...

The Cuthbert C. Hurd papers consist of materials related to the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), primarily from 1949 through 1962, and Hurd's role in steering the company to develop its first electronic stored program computers during that time. The...

Harry D. Huskey was a mathematician who became a pioneer in the field of computer science. During his career, he worked on early and important computing systems such as the ENIAC, EDVAC, Pilot ACE, and SWAC. He also dedicated a...

The Ideographix, Inc. records range in date from 1974 to 1999 and contain program listings, manuals, specifications, data sheets, periodicals, software, and A/V materials. The contents of the collection were produced and used by the office of Ideographix, Inc. (IPX),...

The John P. Imlay papers consist of materials reflecting changes in the software industry during the 1970s and 1980s, specifically within the software company Imlay led from 1971 through 1989, Management Science America, Inc. (MSA). This collection shows the progression...

The Peter R. Jennings papers are made up of the corporate and financial records of companies Jennings was involved with, most notably VisiCorp, Gavilan, and Vasona. These records are largely concerned with the marketability of products and company strategies. There...

Reynold B. (Rey) Johnson's papers are comprised of International Business Machines (IBM) company documents, newspaper clippings, project ideas and drawings, and photographs from his thirty-seven years with IBM. Of particular note is Johnson's involvement in the development of magnetic disk...

The Charles A. Jortberg collection contains materials from 1946 to 1990 which Jortberg amassed during his career in the computer industry. He worked for IBM, Viatron, and his own firm, Jortberg & Associates, which consulted on high-tech patent litigation and...

The Harwood G. Kolsky collection is comprised of documents related to the development of super computers, microprocessors and microcomputers, computer modeling, digital image processing, computer programming languages, as well as materials related to teaching computer architecture and computer history. The...

The Don Liddie papers on Signetics contain the professional papers of Don Liddie, a Signetics employee from 1963 through 1995. The collection documents the corporate culture of the semiconductor industry and Silicon Valley from the late 1960s through the mid...

The Mike Markkula collection of early Apple Computer material consists of material produced or collected by Markkula during his time at Apple Computer, Inc. in various capacities from CEO to chairman of the board. Ranging in date from 1977 to...

The Don Maslin CP/M collection consists of software and published documentation ranging from 1973 to 1996, with the bulk being from 1977 to 1984. About half of the collection consists of software in floppy disk and cassette formats. Most of...

The John C. McDonald papers contain published transistor and integrated circuit material from 1959 through 1980.

The John C. McPherson collection contains materials from McPherson's career at IBM, which lasted from 1930 to 1971. During his time at IBM, McPherson witnessed and participated in IBM's shift from punched card machines to electronic computers and, at the...

The William H. Meek collection contains manuals, publications, promotional material, correspondence, and programming projects from 1944 through 1983 that document Meek's interests in computers, mechanical engineering, and the interlocking six-piece Burr puzzle. Meek was an instrumentation specialist at Dow Chemical...

The George A. Michael papers consist of material related to the growth of the supercomputing industry and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) computing activities while Michael worked there as a computational scientist from 1953 to 1991. The collection reflects Michael's...

The Chuck Moore, John Rible, Dean Sanderson and Greg Bailey collection on Forth, ranging in date from 1970 to 2002, contains materials generated by and for the Forth community. Types of materials in the collection include conference proceedings, journals, manuals,...

The Gary Morgenthaler collection consists of financial, marketing, and administrative records that primarily document the operation of Relational Technology, Inc., a database management system company that Morgenthaler co-founded and was CEO and chairman of from 1980 to 1989. The collection...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collection of SDS 930 documentation and tapes consists of printed materials, data stored on magnetic tapes, and software on paper tapes. The collection ranges in date from 1961 to 1994. About half of...

The Robert (Bob) Norman papers hold the professional and personal papers of Bob Norman, who was an engineer who worked at Fairchild Semiconductor, General Micro Electronics, and other technology companies involved in integrated circuit production during the 1960s and 1970s...

The Thomas J. O’Rourke collection includes business records pertaining to O’Rourke’s work at Tymshare, a corporation he co-founded, the General Electric Company (GE), and to the computer services industry as a whole. There is an emphasis on internal company communications...

The Adam Osborne collection consists of material related to Osborne’s role as writer and publisher of software and technical books and manuals, primarily between 1975 and 1991. There are copies of these texts in English as well as Japanese, Italian,...

The Paul Perkovic papers range in date from 1967 to 1988 and consist of technical reports, memos, notes, and published manuals. About a third of the collection consists of documentation related to the Harvard University Center for Research in Computing...

The Photo Data Systems Incorporated records are comprised of administrative papers and records, design drawings and promotional materials regarding the Slide-a-Mat machine invented in the 1960's. It was an early system demonstrating the concept of shopping from the comfort of...

The Paul R. Pierce collection of IBM documentation contains manuals, bulletins, diagrams, and parts catalogs ranging in date from 1956 to 1970. Paul Pierce, a computer collector, gathered this documentation to accompany the physical machines that he also collected. The...

The Paul R. Pierce collection of IBM materials ranges in date from 1954 to 1973, with the bulk published between 1955 and 1965. Paul Pierce, a computer collector, gathered this documentation to accompany the physical machines that he also collected....

The James N. Porter papers document Porter’s career in the disk drive and data storage industries, particularly his role as the founder and president of DISK/TREND, which published annual market study reports on the disk drive and data storage industry....

The Radio Shack collection contains materials related to Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack’s microcomputer, the TRS-80. The Manuals series consists of manuals published by Tandy and others concerned with the TRS-80 and also programs authored by Radio Shack and other companies. The...

The Seymour Rubinstein collection of MicroPro International Corporation records consists of records that Rubinstein retained for his own use from his tenure at MicroPro International Corporation. Rubinstein was the founder and CEO of MicroPro, and an influential innovator in the...

The Jeff Rulifson papers contain materials that document Rulifson's career as a computer scientist working on projects such as artificial intelligence, NLS (oN-Line Systems), and office information systems at Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, Xerox PARC, ROLM Corporation, Syntelligence,...

The Peter N. Schink papers contain the professional papers of Schink, a salesman and manufacturer's representative in the semiconductor industry.

The Bill Scull collection holds materials related to the field of multimedia product design and technology, and its intersection with higher education, created between 1985 to 1996. About half of the collection is made up of printed materials, such as...

The Harry Sello papers hold materials collected or created by Sello over the course of his career as an engineer at Shockley Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor, as an independent consultant, and as an expert witness. The papers span 1954 through...

The Richard Sites papers, which range in date from 1967 to 1997, consist of materials that Sites collected during his career as a computer architect, software engineer, and professor of computer science. Materials include manuals and reference guides, newspaper and...

The Michael Slater collection on microprocessors contains conference proceedings and other publications focusing on microprocessor technologies and industry trends. The collection spans 1977 to 2000, with most of the material dating from 1987 to 1999 when Slater founded and led...

The Software History Center was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on the business history of software companies; initial focus was on mainframe software companies, but extended to minicomputer software companies and personal computer software companies. The organization was independent from...

The SRI ARC/NIC records contain material from Stanford Research Institute’s Augmentation Research Center (ARC) and Stanford Research Institute’s Network Information Center (NIC) project. The bulk of the collection is from 1968 through 1991. The collection documents the development of Dr....

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) collection of reference material ranges in date from 1965 to 1993. Retained as part of a reference library used by computing services staff, the collection includes manuals, user guides, technical reports, and program libraries....

The Herbert Stoyan collection on LISP programming contains materials documenting the origins, evolution, and use of the LISP programming language and many of its applications in artificial intelligence. Stoyan collected these materials during his career as a researcher and professor,...

The Ivan E. Sutherland collection on asynchronous computing ranges in date from 1966 to 1999 and contains materials from Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the Computer Systems Laboratory at Washington University related to asynchronous computing, known widely today as neuromorphic computing....

The Richard B. Talmadge papers consist of manuals, technical reports, internal memos and documentation, daily activity logs, and subject, personal, and project files relating to Talmadge's work at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). The materials range in date from 1953...

The George R. Trimble Jr. collection contains reports, papers, manuals, correspondence, conference proceedings, and notes that document Trimble’s career in computer and data processing design and development from 1948 to 2000, with the bulk of the collection from 1955 to...

The Henry S. Tropp papers consist of materials related to his professional work as both a professor of mathematics at Humboldt State University and a history of computing scholar. The collection includes correspondence, memos, research, books, audio-visual material, and photographs...

The Steven J. Wallach papers document Wallach's career as an engineer and technology manager specializing in high-performance computing and supercomputers. The papers, dating between 1965 to 2010, consist of published manuals and documentation, technical reports, memoranda, engineering notebooks, course and...

The Jim C. Warren papers document Warren’s founding and chairmanship of the West Coast Computer Faire, his political activism related to online access and civil liberties, his computer-related publications and writing career, and his technological consulting projects and research. Also...

The Jon L. White collection on Common Lisp contains material relating to the development and standardization of the programming language Common Lisp and, more generally, the Lisp family of programming languages. Records date from 1963 to 2012, with the bulk...

The Richard Winkler papers contain technical reports and papers, subject files, memos, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. Ranging in date from 1944 to 1977, many of the materials pertain to the history of semiconductors, transistors, and vacuum tubes. The papers...