Our mission to preserve the history of the software industry includes encouraging organizations and individuals who have historical materials in their files to donate those materials to an archival organization where they can be preserved for the future and also be catalogued and indexed to make them accessible to researchers.
Individuals and organizations who have made donations of substantial collections of historical materials as a result of our efforts are the following.
Donated to the Charles Babbage Institute, Minneapolis, MN (www.cbi.umn.edu):
ITAA (now known as TechAmerica): ADAPSO documents
Lawrence A. Welke: ICP publications and documents
Joan Wessel: Milton Wessel’s ADAPSO documents
Donated to the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (www.computerhistory.org):
Carl Baltrunas: Tymshare/Tymnet documents and objects
Roger Dyer: GEIS documents
Werner Frank: Professional papers and Informatics documents
Burton Grad: Professional papers and GE, IBM and Burton Grad Associates documents
Karol Hines: Ross Systems documents
John P. Imlay, Jr.: Professional papers and MSA documents
Rich Lynn: Tymshare documents
Robert MacDonald: Informix documents
Gary Morgenthaler: Ingres and Tymshare documents
Tim O’Rourke: Tymshare documents
Robert Patrick: Professional papers
Lawrence J. Schoenberg: Professional papers and AGS documents
Materials for the Computer History Museum archives have also been donated by attendees at our Pioneer Meetings and contributors to the IT Corporate Histories Collection. These collections consist of a number of donations each too small to be listed individually but combined with other donations, they comprise a significant collection for each of the companies or organizations listed below.
AGS Computers
Aldus
Borland
CGA
Cincom Systems
Computer Usage Company
Datamation
Digital Research, Inc.
DynCorp
GEIS
Informix
Ingres
NACCB (National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses)
PRC
Ross Systems
Software AG
Software Design Associates
Software Publishing
Tymshare/Tymnet
Updata Capital, Inc.
I was concerned that people was collecting the hardware but not the software and documentation which to me is just as important. I have collected a lot of software and documentation for the micro computer era. I would like to contribute it. Can you help,
Hi,
I was a FORTRAN programmer on a Univac 1108 computer running on EXEC 2 (remote user on University Computing Company, based in Texas).
I have a number of Univac manuals – Exec 2, Exec 8, FORTRAN, Principals of Operation. etc. Maybe 20 manuals, used but fair condition.
I can donate the ones you want.
Please, either:
a) send me a list of what you have, and I will make a list of others that I have, and ask for verification before I ship them to the Museum.
b) I can list what I have, and you identify what you want.
Thanks,
Jim Guinan New Jersey
Hi Jim, the easiest thing to do is search the collection, for example:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=univac+fortran
This will show what we already have. If you would like to donate further, let us know. Cheers.