Inventor Name
Various
Repository
Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology
211 Elmer L. Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
Physical Description
42 boxes (37.1 cubic feet)
Summary
This series documents the research, development, and engineering activities of the Control Data Corporation from 1957-1985 (bulk 1960s and 1970s). Materials include memos, correspondence, photographs, engineering specifications and technical diagrams, as well as technical reports, articles, papers, and literature. Most technical literature has been separated from the collection and placed in the CDC Product Literature series, except for small amounts of literature found in various CDC division records. Manuals have also been separated from the collection and placed in the CDC Product Manuals series, with the exception of some preliminary or draft copies, including those which are the work of particular engineers (e.g. Jay Kershaw), or portions of records documenting the development of a specific computer system (e.g. STAR). Well-documented portions of the collection include development of the STAR computer system (from the records of Neil R. Lincoln), and the records of engineers Jay A. Kershaw, and J.E. Thornton. Kershaw’s records include a great deal of information about the STAR and Cyber 80 systems, Worldtech (a CDC venture), Advanced Systems Laboratory (including the Integrated Product Line, and Computer Terminals of Iran), Advanced Systems Division, and the Special Systems Division. Thornton’s records reflect his work with fellow engineer, Seymour Cray, during the early years of CDC and its development of the 1604 Computer. Neil Lincoln’s records document his work at CDC in the 1960s and 1970s, and are not complete. For example, not reflected in Lincoln’s papers is his work within CDC’s supercomputer subsidiary, ETA Systems, Inc. The majority of Neil Lincoln’s records concern development of the STAR computer systems and reflect his and other engineer’s work on the project. Lincoln’s STAR records are integrated with other STAR records in this series.
Finding Aid
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00080-07.xml