Guide to the G. Edward Bryan collection on the CP-6 system
Finding aid prepared by Bo Doub, Kim Hayden and Sara Chabino Lott
Processing of this collection was made
possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
administered
through the Council on Library and
Information Resources' Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and
Archives grant.
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA, 94043
(650) 810-1010
July 2015
Title: G. Edward Bryan collection on the CP-6 system
Identifier/Call Number: X2901.2005
Contributing Institution:
Computer History Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
60.84 Linear feet,
45 record cartons, 4 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1965-1992
Date (inclusive): 1955-2002
Abstract: 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 machines,
the
LADC was established in 1976 to develop CP-V’s
backward-compatible successor, CP-6. The LADC team was a hybrid of Xerox
programmers
and Honeywell management, with Bryan as its
director. The collection holds LADC’s administrative records,
publications, presentation
materials, and records relating to the
development and releases of CP-6. The collection spans 1955 to 2002. The
LADC and CP-6
parts of the collection span 1973 through 2002,
but are primarily from 1976 when the project began until 1992 when
support
for CP-6 was transferred to ACTC Technologies.
Languages: The collection is almost entirely in English. There is a small amount of material in Swedish, Japanese, German, and French.
creator:
Bryan, George Edward, d. 2014
Processing Information
Collection processed by Bo Doub and Kim Hayden, 2015.
Access Restrictions
Materials in boxes 1 and 8
contain social security numbers. Researchers must use redacted
photocopies of this restricted material
for research. Otherwise, the collection is open
for research.
Publication Rights
The Computer History Museum
(CHM) can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are
responsible for satisfying
any claims of the copyright holder. Requests for
copying and permission to publish, quote, or reproduce any portion of
the
Computer History Museum’s collection must be
obtained jointly from both the copyright holder (if applicable) and the
Computer
History Museum.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], [Date], G. Edward Bryan collection on the CP-6 system, Lot X2901.2005, Box [#], Folder [#], Catalog
[#], Computer History Museum.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of G. Edward Bryan, 2004.
Biographical/Historical Note
G. Edward Bryan received his BS
in electrical engineering from Caltech in 1954 and an MS-level
certificate in communications
from Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1957. He
worked in system design and engineering at Bell from 1954 to 1960, then
worked
at the RAND Corporation’s Computer Sciences
Department (also known as the RAND Computation Center) until 1967, where
he was
on the design team that developed the JOSS-II
time-sharing programming language.
After RAND, Bryan worked at
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) as the manager of operating systems
development. SDS was acquired
by Xerox and renamed Xerox Data Systems (XDS) in
1969; Bryan continued to work there as a computer scientist on the
programming
development team that worked on the CP-V
operating system for Xerox’s Sigma system of computers. CP-V was
released in 1973,
but by 1975, Xerox decided to leave the computer
business and Honeywell Inc. acquired XDS and around 60 programmers from
the
CP-V development team, including Bryan, in 1976.
Honeywell also acquired Xerox’s
Sigma user base and pledged to continue supporting the Sigma line as
they developed an updated
and improved version of CP-V that would be
nearly identical to the Sigma operating system but operational only on
Honeywell
machines. They called this operating system
CP-6, and it would allow Xerox customers to migrate from their Sigma
computers
to Honeywell’s own computers with relative ease.
CP-6 could be used with Honeywell’s Level 66, DPS 8, DPS 8000, and DPS
90.
Honeywell opened the Los Angeles
Development Center (LADC) in 1976 as the center of operations for CP-6
development. As an
LADC director, Bryan oversaw the programmers who
would create CP-6 in just three years, a development rate that Bryan
noted
was twice as fast with half the errors as
comparable software projects. CP-6 was designed using the programming
language PL-6,
which was developed by LADC specifically for the
project. The first Sigma customer to implement CP-6 was Carleton
University
in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1979, and eventually they
gained more than 70 CP-6 customers.
In 1987, Honeywell, NEC (Nippon
Electric Company), and Groupe Bull merged to create Honeywell Bull. The
new company decided
to refocus its efforts and phase out the
development of CP-6. Honeywell Bull was consolidated into Groupe Bull in
1988 and
the name was changed to Bull HN in 1989.
That same year, it was announced
that LADC would be closing and support for CP-6 would move to the
Canadian company ACTC Technologies
Inc., which was partially owned by Bull. Before
the shutdown, Bryan considered and proposed several alternatives that
would
save LADC, such as transforming it into a
business independent of Bull and proposing the acquisition of LADC and
its staff
to several companies. Ultimately, Bull decided
to keep LADC open during the transition of CP-6 support to ACTC,
retaining
essential staff and laying off others. Ten to 12
programmers, including Bryan, stayed on under a two-year contract to
train
the ACTC staff in the support and maintenance of
CP-6 from 1990 to 1992.
Before the LADC contracts ended,
Bryan sent letters and resumes to other companies in an attempt to keep
his CP-6 team together,
or at the very least employed. In December of
1992, LADC closed for good and the staff that did not continue to
contract with
ACTC were laid off. Bryan took an early
retirement from Bull. CP-6 remained in operation and supported by ACTC
until 2005,
when the last system was shut down at Carleton
University, the first site to implement it. Bryan died July 9, 2014.
Scope and Content of the Collection
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). The LADC was established in 1976 to develop a CP-V backward
compatible
successor, the CP-6, to attract Xerox CP-V users
to Honeywell machines. The LADC team was a hybrid of Xerox programmers
and
Honeywell management, with Bryan as its
director. The “Honeywell CP-6 project” series is primarily made up of
records created
at the LADC starting in 1976 when the project
began until 1992 when support for CP-6 was transferred to ACTC
Technologies
in Canada. LADC administrative records and
materials relating to the development and releases of CP-6 make up the
bulk of
this series, which also includes publications,
and presentation materials. Collection highlights in the LADC
administrative
records include Bryan’s notebooks, calendars,
and dayplanners and various forms of original artwork from LADC
employees that
document the frustration that many LADC members
felt over the Honeywell-Bull merger and the end of CP-6. Also included
in
the “Honeywell CP-6 project” series are
promotional material, press, manuals, and conference and presentation
materials. The
non-CP-6 series in the collection contain
Honeywell administrative records and publications related to other
projects and
products. A significant portion of the
collection includes materials created at Scientific Data Systems (SDS)
and Xerox Data
Systems (XDS) documenting the Universal
Time-Sharing System (UTS) and CP-V – both of which were the main
predecessors to Honeywell’s
CP-6 system in terms of architecture and user
base. One other company where Bryan worked that is prevalent in the
collection
is the RAND Corporation. The materials from RAND
are primarily from the 1960s and focus on the JOHNNIAC computer and
JOSS
programming language. Other companies and
publications represented in the non-CP-6 series include IBM, and to a
lesser extent,
the Control Data Corporation (CDC), Philco,
General Electric (GE), Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and several
volumes
of the Communications of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM).
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 6 series:
Series 1, Honeywell CP-6 project, 1973-2002, bulk 1976-1992
Series 2, Non-CP-6 Honeywell, 1974-1992
Series 3, SDS and XDS records, 1964-1983
Series 4, RAND Corporation records, 1955-2001, bulk 1960-1969
Series 5, IBM records, 1956-1965
Series 6, Other companies and publications, 1956-1993
Separated Material
Non-text items were separated
from the main collection. These include packaged software, circuit
boards, audiotapes, videotapes,
slides, photographs, framed images, plaques,
posters, buttons, mugs and a mug warmer, paperweights, a Honeywell
post-it holder,
a T-shirt, a tie and tie clip, lapel pins, a
keychain, a matchbox, a scarf, a pennant with buttons attached, and an
LADC pewter
tankard. To view catalog records for separated
items go to the CHM website at
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/ .
Related Collections at CHM
Keith G. Calkins collection on Sigma systems, Lot X4287.2008.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
CP-6
CP-V
Honeywell Inc.
International Business Machines.
JOHNNIAC computer
Operating systems (Computers)
Rand Corporation
Scientific Data Systems
Xerox Corporation
Honeywell CP-6 project, Series 1,
Bulk, 1976-1992
1973-2002
Series Scope and Content
This series contains records related to the development, promotion, and demise of Honeywell Inc.’s CP-6 operating system and
the Los Angeles Development Center (LADC), the division that developed it.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into 5 subseries:
Subseries 1.1, LADC administrative records, 1973-1992, bulk 1975-1992
Subseries 1.2, CP-6 development records, 1975-2002, bulk 1976-1992
Subseries 1.3, Promotional material and press, 1977-1990
Subseries 1.4, Manuals, 1977-1992
Subseries 1.5, Conference and presentation materials, 1976-1992
LADC administrative records, Subseries 1.1,
Bulk, 1975-1992
1973-1992
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains
material that documents the management of the Los Angeles Development
Center (LADC), including its
organizational structure, personnel,
building facilities, business planning, marketing, and clients, from its
inception to
its closing. Material dates from 1973
to 1992, the bulk of which is from 1975 to 1992. Included are personnel
records, company
procedures, training materials, and
compensation reports; business planning records, finances, budgets, and
annual reports;
presentations, correspondence, notes,
and reports related to current and prospective clients; contracts and
agreements; promotional
material, logos, and other branding;
Bryan’s notebooks, calendars, and day planners; and original artwork in
the form of drawings,
stories, and office humor that
demonstrates the frustration LADC employees felt over the merger between
Honeywell and Bull
and the end of CP-6. That merger and
the subsequent discontinuation of support for CP-6, layoffs, and final
shutdown of LADC
are well represented in this subseries
and include planning records, proposals to other companies to acquire
LADC or its staff,
job search resources, layoff records, a
proposal to make LADC a business independent from Bull, and material
that documents
the transition of CP-6 and LADC staff
to ACTC Technologies Inc. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
102734536
Clients
1973-1992
102734609
Organizational structure and human resources [RESTRICTED]
1973-1992
102734616
Bryan's calendars, and dayplanners
1974-1992
102707066
Oversize artwork
1975-1988
102734602
Business planning
1975-1992
102734580
Office humor, drawings, and invitations
1976-1986
102734593
Interoffice correspondence
1976-1989
102734615
Bryan's notebooks
1976-1990
102734579
Procedures and employee training
1977-1989
102734581
Administrative reports
1977-1992
102734585
Finances
1977-1992
102734584
Facilities
1978-1992
102734578
Branding and design
ca. 1978-1986
102707067
CP-6 Poster
ca. 1980
102734607
Bryan's compensation and retirement records
1985-1992
102734592
Contracts and agreements
1985-1992
102734610
Engineering Applied Reporting System (EARS) reports
1987-1992
102734591
Shutdown planning, transitions, and layoffs [RESTRICTED]
1988-1992
102734606
Transition to ACTC Technologies Inc.
1988-1992
102734542
Independent business unit proposal
1989
102734589
Acquisition proposals and job searching
1990-1992
CP-6 development records, Subseries 1.2,
Bulk, 1976-1992
1975-2002
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains
records regarding the planning, development, and releases of the
Honeywell CP-6 operating system.
Much of this subseries is organized by
each version or release of CP-6, with design reviews from the CP-6
Review Board for
each release along with administrative
correspondence, status reports, risk evaluations, presentation
materials, concept designs,
and specifications. The records
relating to the initial release of CP-6, also called version A01, span
from 1976 to 1979.
The subsequent CP-6 releases documented
in this subseries, along with the years covered in their corresponding
records, proceed
as: version B00 through B03 (Release
2), 1979 to 1983; version C00 (Release 3), 1980 to 1986; versions D00,
E00, and E01,
1987 to 1990; and versions AR 1.0
through AR 3.0, 1990 to 1992. Also included in this subseries are
records relating to CP-6
performance and specifications, user
support data, market strategies and analyses defining new market
segments for selling
CP-6, technical features of CP-6 and
its supporting software, management of software development and
distribution, business
plans, and papers authored by Bryan. Of
particular interest are materials relating to CP-V to CP-6 migration
spanning 1976
through 1981. These folders include
papers and memoranda relating to "Project Phoenix: A Migration Strategy
for the Xerox
CP-V Base" and correspondence between
Xerox clients and Bryan about migrating to Honeywell’s CP-6 system. This
subseries contains
a small amount of CP-6-specific
documents created by members of HLSUA (Honeywell Large Systems Users
Association) and the
Exchange Xerox Computer Users' Group,
which include background documentation, product updates, technical
papers, and board
meetings surrounding CP-6 research and
development. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
102734621
CP-6 Front End Processors (FEP)
1975-1986
102734586
CP-6 initial release
1976-1979
102734601
CP-6 Technical Committee
1976-1981
102734568
CP-V to CP-6 migration
1976-1981
102734624
CP-6 milestones, historical, and overviews
1976-1989
102734617
CP-6 architecture
1976-1991
102734628
Honeywell Large Systems Users Association (HLSUA) and EXCHANGE work on CP-6
1977-1990
102734623
UNIX on CP-6
1977-1991
102734588
CP-6 performance and specifications
1978-1990
102734620
General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS) and CP-6
1978-1990
102734597
Market strategies and analyses
1978-1992
102734594
CP-6 software monthly status reports
1979-1983
102734605
CP-6 version B00-B03, release 2
1979-1983
102734618
CP-6-related projects and software
1979-1988
102734625
Schedules and timelines
1979-1989
102734630
Beta testing and user documentation
1979-1990
102734611
CP-6 version C00, release 3
1980-1986
102734590
Management of CP-6 software development and distribution
1980-1990
102734626
CP-6 network capabilities and communications
1980-1992
102734604
STARLOG
1980-1992
102734629
CP-6 spotlight
1981-1984
102734587
CP-6 strategic reviews
1981-1987
102734603
CP-6 security capabilities
1982-1988
102734631
Papers authored by G. Edward Bryan
1979-2002
102734600
CP-6 business plans
1986
102734612
CP-6 versions D00, E00, and E01
1987-1990
102734619
Data management system (DMS)
1988
102734608
C language compiler for CP-6
1988-1991
102734622
A RElational System (ARES)
1990-1992
102734614
CP-6 versions AR 1.0 through AR 3.0
1990-1992
Promotional material and press, Subseries 1.3,
1977-1990
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists
of newspaper and magazine clippings, Honeywell internal marketing
communications, press releases,
and brochures related to CP-6 from 1977
to 1990, and CP-6’s first print advertisement from 1981. Honeywell
internal marketing
communications include CP-6-specific
newsletters and other Honeywell, Bull, and LADC newsletters that mention
the system,
including a large number of copies of
Honeywell’s Printout newsletter. The brochures provide overviews of CP-6
and the Honeywell
DPS 8, which used CP-6 as its operating
system. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102734528
Advertisements
1981
102734526
Clippings and articles
1977-1989
102734529
Honeywell periodicals and internal marketing communications
1977-1990
102734527
Press releases
ca. 1977-1986
102734523
Product overviews and brochures
1977-1985
Manuals, Subseries 1.4,
1977-1992
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made
up of CP-6 and DPS 8 manuals, and lists of available manuals, from 1977
to 1992. Included are installation,
reference, and maintenance guides for
setting up CP-6, using it with various applications, programming for it,
and maintaining
it. The 1990 DPS 8 manual consists of
installation bulletins that provide instructions on setting up CP-6 on
the computer
system. Also included are a number of
Carleton University Computing Services manuals for their machines that
ran CP-6. Carleton
was the first and last site to use
CP-6. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102734596
Carleton University Computing Services
ca. 1986
102734548
Concepts and facilities
1977-1989
102734546
DPS 8
1983; 1990
102734550
Installation, maintenance, and support
1980-1992
102734595
Manual catalogs
1986-1989
102734544
Networking and programs
1983-1990
102734549
Programming
1984-1990
Conference and presentation materials, Subseries 1.5,
1976-1992
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains
presentation and conference materials related to CP-6 from 1976 to
1992. Almost half of this subseries
is made up of presentations that
provide an overview of or status report on CP-6 that were given by LADC
staff to CP-6 stakeholders,
including Honeywell and Bull
executives. There are several folders containing notes and material for a
presentation given
by LADC to Bull HN CEO Roland Pampel at
the time that Bull acquired Honeywell’s computer division, around 1988
and 1989. About
a third of this subseries consists of
presentations about CP-6 that members of LADC gave at HLSUA (Honeywell
Large Systems
Users Association) and Xerox User Group
and CP-6 Users Exchange meetings. Also included is material related to
those conferences,
such as notes, programs, and
itineraries. A smaller portion of this subseries contains presentations
given at conferences
and seminars that were specific to
CP-6, such as the CP-6 Educational Users Conference, and an even smaller
portion includes
presentations about CP-6 given at the
Bull Users Society. There is a very small amount of material related to
other industry
conferences, such as InterXchange, and
photographic slides of presentations. This subseries is arranged
chronologically.
102734540
Overview, status report, and review presentations
1976-1992
102734538
CP-6 conferences and seminars
1978-1991
102734532
HLSUA (Honeywell Large Systems Users Association) meetings
1979-1989
102734583
Industry meetings
1979-1992
102734582
Conference and seminar planning notes and correspondence
1987-1989
102734533
Presentations given to Bull HN CEO Roland Pampel
1988-1989
102734543
Bull Users Society (BUS) meeting
1990
102734530
Xerox and CP-6 Users Exchange meetings
1977-1982; 1991-1992
102734627
Presentation photographic slides
undated
Non-CP-6 Honeywell, Series 2,
1974-1992
Series Scope and Content
This series contains
records related to Honeywell Inc. and its post-merger incarnations as
Honeywell Bull and Bull HN, dating
from 1974 to 1992. These records are
not related to CP-6, but instead focus on Honeywell and Bull
administrative matters,
projects, products, promotions, and
conferences. Materials include HLSUA (Honeywell Large Systems Users
Association) and Honeywell
Bull Users Meeting proceedings,
organizational records, correspondence, clippings, press releases,
periodicals, manuals, promotional
materials, product price lists, and
catalogs. The material documents the mergers and day-to-day operations
and marketing of
these companies. This series is
arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102734563
Manuals, catalogs, and price lists
1974-1992
102734574
Honeywell administrative and project records
1975-1986
102734567
Clippings, press, and periodicals
1976-1992
102734565
Promotional material
1976-1992
102734577
Conference proceedings and records
1980-1990
102734572
Honeywell Bull records
1987-1989
102734576
Bull administrative and project records
1987-1992
102734571
Employee workbooks and handbooks
1988-1989
102734569
Bull internal newsletters and announcements
1989-1992
102713245
Bull HN Information Systems promotional material
ca. 1990
SDS and XDS records, Series 3,
1964-1983
Series Scope and Content
This series contains
publications, correspondence, and administrative records created at
Scientific Data Systems (SDS), and,
subsequent to Xerox Corporation’s
acquisition of SDS, Xerox Data Systems (XDS). In terms of specific
products, the systems
that are most well-documented in this
series are the Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS) and CP-V. Both of
these operating
systems were initially developed for
the Sigma series of computers and both were the main predecessors to
Honeywell’s CP-6
system, which was backward-compatible
with CP-V, but rewritten for Honeywell hardware. Another large part of
this series is
made up of Exchange proceedings.
Exchange started as the Xerox computer users' group, but it still
operated and held conferences
after Xerox sold its SDS/XDS/Xerox
computer business to Honeywell in 1975 and many of the proceedings in
this series follow
that date. Also included in this series
are SDS and XDS promotional material, press, sales documents, product
descriptions
and specifications, manuals, personnel
records, market analyses, correspondence with clients, annual reports,
periodicals,
and newsletters. This series is
arranged chronologically.
102734508
Interface
1964-1975
102734521
Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS)
1966-1974
102734516
Product development, descriptions and specifications
1966-1975
102734511
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) administrative records
1967-1969
102734517
Xerox and Scientific Data Systems (SDS) conference materials
1967-1974
102734512
Manuals and reference cards
1967-1976
102734510
Personnel records
1968-1978
102734514
Tymshare, Inc.
1969-1971
102734513
Market analyses and product comparisons
1969-1973
102734515
Promotional material, press, and sales
1970-1979
102734519
EXCHANGE proceedings
1971-1983
102734632
Xerox acquisition of Scientific Data Systems (SDS)
ca. 1971
102734522
Xerox periodicals and newsletters
1972-1975
102734506
User news
1972-1978
102734520
CP-V operating system
1973-1980
102734524
Honeywell acquisition of Xerox mainframe computer business
1975
102734525
Motorola Sigma 9 agreements
1975
102734509
Annual reports
1966-1969; 1976
102734518
EXCHANGE Users' Group program library
ca. 1978
RAND Corporation records, Series 4,
Bulk, 1960-1969
1955-2001
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of
technical papers, manuals, design drawings, program listings, and
correspondence about RAND projects
and technologies. The bulk of this
series relates to the JOHNNIAC computer (John v. Neumann Numerical
Integrator and Automatic
Computer) and JOSS (JOHNNIAC Open Shop
System), one of the first interactive, time-sharing programming
languages, which was
initially developed by J. Clifford Shaw
at RAND and first implemented on the JOHNNIAC computer in 1963. Other
RAND projects
covered in this series include ALMOST, a
calculating computer; SMILE, a program developed by Morton I. Bernstein
and Bryan
for the JOHNNIAC computer; and SMAC
(for 'SMAll Compiler'), a system for stating problems for numerical
solution on the JOHNNIAC.
More recent parts of this series
include materials relating to the design of a JOHNNIAC simulator that
was due for completion
in the late 1990s and a 1998 public
lecture at the Computer History Museum about the JOHNNIAC computer. This
series is arranged
chronologically.
102734541
JOHNNIAC
1955-1965
102734535
SMAC
1958; 1991
102734531
Technical papers on RAND Corporation projects
1960-1969
102734539
RAND Computer statistics notebook
1961-1964
102734547
JOSS (JOHNNIAC Open Shop System)
1961-1968
102734537
ALMOST / SMILE
1963
102734534
RAND Corporation equipment planning
1963-1965
102734575
Computing newsletter
1965-1967
102734554
History of JOSS research
1967; 1995-2001
102734545
JOHNNIAC simulator and Computer History Museum lecture
1995-1998
IBM records, Series 5,
1956-1965
Series Scope and Content
This series contains
manuals, correspondence, and technical papers about IBM systems and
computers. IBM products documented
in this series include IBM 7040/7044
computers and IBM 1050 computers. Also included are manuals and
correspondence published
by other companies, but related to IBM
products, such as two manuals published by Aerojet-General Corporation
for programs
used on IBM computers. Other materials
of this kind include memoranda and program descriptions published by
Bell Telephone
Laboratories about programming for the
IBM 704. Lastly, this series contains administrative records,
correspondence, meeting
minutes, and proceedings from SHARE,
the volunteer-run user group initially centered on IBM mainframe
computers. The SHARE
Operating System (SOS), which SHARE
created and first ran on the IBM 709, makes up a large part of these
records. This series
is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102734564
Aerojet programming manuals for IBM computers
1962-1964
102734570
Bell Telephone Laboratories programming for IBM 704
1957-1958
102739091
FORTRAN manuals for the IBM 704
1957-1958
102739094
IBM 407, 519, and 650
1955-1957
102739093
IBM 704, 705, and 709-7090
1955-1960
102734560
IBM 7040/7044
1961-1965
102734561
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) manuals and reference cards
1956-1964
102734566
SHARE Inc.
1962-1965
Other companies and publications, Series 6,
1956-1994
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of
records about or produced by companies and organizations other than
those with separate series in
this collection. About half of this
series is made up of computing manuals, specifications, promotional
material, and documentation
published by companies such as Control
Data Corporation (CDC), Philco, General Electric, Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC),
Burroughs, Bell Laboratories, Computer
Control Company, Bendix, and Telefile. Philco manuals and CDC manuals
and brochures
make up about a third of these. Also
included are several volumes of the Communications of the Association
for Computing Machinery
(ACM). Additionally, there are small
quantities of announcements, attendee lists, agendas, and papers from
conferences such
as the ACM Storage Allocation
Symposium, IEEE workshops, and a TCP/IP seminar. The smallest portion of
this series includes
a handbook for the Rechen-zentrum
Trebur GMBH (Computer Centre Trebur) that is in German and English, and
board meeting minutes,
bylaws, and a shareholders agreement
for International Meta Systems Inc., a software company Bryan was vice
president of from
1987 to 1988. This series is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739095
Burroughs Corporation manuals and promotional material
ca. 1959
102734558
Clippings and periodicals
1976-1993
102734559
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
1958-1964
102734553
Conference and workshop materials
1961-1966; 1991-1992
102734551
Control Data Corporation manuals and brochures
1959-1963
102734555
Manuals and documentation
1959-1991
102734598
Object-oriented programming articles and advertisements
1987-1988
102734599
Organizational records
1985-1987
102739096
Philco 2000 Operating System (SYS)
1963-01
102734552
Philco manuals
1962-1964
102734556
Promotional material
1956-1992
102734557
Technical papers and reports
1956-1994
