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Company
Control Data Corporation / Continental Capital / Erwin Tomash (1921-2012) Computer / Remington Rand / Ampex / Apple Computer / ICT/ICL / Engineering Research Associates / Naval Ordnance Laboratory / Yahoo / Ferranti / IEEE Annals / Sperry-Univac / Greater Washington Industrial Investments / Informatics General Corporation / Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation / Microsoft / TRW / General Electric / Sperry Corporation / Collins Radio / Telemeter Magnetics / RCA / CBI Photo Contest 32 CBI Newsletter / Dataproducts Corporation / Burroughs / Data Products Corporation / Google / Bank of America / Lehman Brothers / Boeing / Palm Beach / working for the pioneering Engineering Research Associates / /
Country
Soviet Union / France / Romania / United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
M&A / Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / Name Change / /
Facility
Gun Factory / The Charles Babbage Institute / Charles Babbage Institute / headquarters of Dataproducts / St. Paul facility / Harvard University / Camp Patrick / Naval Ordnance Laboratory / Yost Charles Babbage Institute / University of Minnesota-wide Audiovisual Services / Computer History Museum / Andersen Library University of Minnesota / University of Minnesota / headquarters of ERA / University of Maryland / Gwen Bell’s Computer Museum / going in St. Paul / / /
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transistorized devices / serviced radar systems / computational technology field / information technology community / electricity / latter-day web pioneer / electronics / pay-per-view systems / radio communications / finance / information technology / computing / transistorized memory systems / similar disk file products / hybrid vacuum tube / seminal computing book / software history / /
Organization
Yost Charles Babbage Institute / University of Maryland / Signal Corps Maintenance Unit / Mechanical Arts High School / Army / CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER Vol. / International Charles Babbage Society / Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Technology / Data Systems Division / United States Navy / National Security Agency / National Science Foundation / ERA’s Technical Publications Department / Navy / United States Army / Army Signal Corps / Charles Babbage Institute / Harvard University / MIT / Acoustics Division / Association for Computing Machinery / Charles Babbage Foundation / National Bureau of Standards / National Youth Administration / Papers Recent Publications CBI Photo Contest CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER Spring / University of Minnesota / /
Person
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Position
salaried manager / vice president / CEO / Editor / major in electrical engineering / executive activities / vice president of marketing / officer / Editor-in-Chief / model / junior electronics engineer / butcher / sales manager / president / Chief Executive Officer / archivist / head / engineer / financier / investment banker / executive / Major / research director / advisors / chief engineer / pioneer and visionary co-founder / sales clerk / second lieutenant / Director / great southern historian / leader / founder / /
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California / New Jersey / Massachusetts / Minnesota / Virginia / Southern California / Maryland / Florida / /
PublishedMedium
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing / /
RadioStation
24 When / 18 CBI / CBI / 31 CBI / 32 CBI / /
Region
southern California / /
Technology
coaxial cable / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / Cable TV / vacuum tube / /
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