Title
Svigals, Jerry (Jerome) oral history
Catalog Number
102658148
Type
Document
Description
Former IBM executive Jerome "Jerry" Svigals discusses his early work on the ENIAC and RCA BIZMAC computing systems, the groundbreaking IBM SPREAD committee and report, its technical and marketing implications for the resulting System/360 product family, internal IBM struggles to define a company driven by electronic computers, his work as part of IBM Asia Pacific, IBM and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a discussion of IBM's main banking and airline customers and their work to develop a magnetic stripe standard for electronic financial transactions, airline ticketing, and boarding passes, the development and global proliferation of smart cards.
Date
2007-06-19
Contributor
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Spicer, Dag, Interviewer
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Svigals, Jerome, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, USA
Extent
44 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Svigals, Jerome; Svigals, Jerry; ENIAC; BIZMAC (Computer); plugboard; Punched cards; Programming; Selectron; IBM 650 (Computer); IBM 701 (Computer); IBM 702 (Computer); System/360 (Computer); SPREAD Committee; Watson, Thomas J., 1914-1993; Haanastra, John; Learson, Vin; Evans, Bob; Brooks, Fred; IBM 1401 Data Processing System (Computer); IBM 704 (Computer); IBM 705 (Computer); SHARE; GUIDE; RAMAC; ATMs; IBM 3600 (Computer); American Airlines; United Airlines; smart cards
Collection Title
Oral history collection
