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Howard Webber describes his work over the years in developing a system to a comprehensive spell checker to be used in producing a world class dictionary which could be used to drive spell checking. He also talks about how this Read More …
Bruce Peterson describes his experiences at Hughes Aircraft as a programmer on the Hughes Labor System and the problems from some of the short-cut assumptions built in from the use of punched cards. He also describes techniques that he introduced Read More …
Bob Patrick traces the evolution of operating systems from his early work on CPCs and the first IBM scientific computers through the GMR-NAA system and the development of SOS, IBSYS and the Direct Couple to the IBM OS/360. Read Bob’s Read More …
Jerry Koory describes his experience in the mid-1960s while working for PRC in developing a comprehensive system for a Title Insurance company to manage the records for both real property transfers and related court actions. This system was an early Read More …
Burton Grad describes his experience designing and programming a manufacturing control system in 1954 for the Dishwasher and Disposer Department of GE in Louisville, KY to run on the first Univac I computer sold for commercial use (as against government Read More …
Uri Berman worked with Pete Nordyke at Rockwell’s Space Division on a massive parts list application for the Apollo space capsule. They had the idea of separating the disk access and recovery functions from the applications programs which accessed the Read More …