[SIGCIS-Members] Looking for earliest mainframe contracts and computer contracts archive

[James Cortada]

Burroughs Papers at CBI too.  Evry existing computer, software, and
services company has such files not for the historians but for their
lawyers.  Jim Cortada

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Dear Anushka,
>
> You will find thick piles of such contracts in the historical archives of
> - Bull, conserved in the ANMT at Lille-Roubaix
> - ICL in Britain
> - Control Data, conserved at the CBI in Minneapolis (great place to work !)
> - closer from your location, Philips and Electrologica
> - clients – banks, atomic energy authorities, electricity or oil
> companies, CERN in Geneva, etc.
>
>
> “The archives of the French computer industry”, *Entreprises et Histoire*,
> juin 2014, n° 75, p. 120-123.
>
> https://shs.cairn.info/article/EH_075_0120?lang=fr
>
> In what sort of vendor restrictions are you interested ?
>
> Regards
> Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
>
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> *De: *"anushka via Members" <members at lists.sigcis.org>
> *À: *"members" <members at lists.sigcis.org>
> *Envoyé: *Vendredi 8 Août 2025 19:47:58
> *Objet: *[SIGCIS-Members] Looking for earliest mainframe contracts and
> computer contracts archive
>
> Dear SIGCIS members
>
> I was wondering if someone has any mainframe and/or supercomputer
> contracts? or if there is an archive of computer contracts? jurisdictions
> and time periods, no bar although the older the better. The query is fairly
> broad so time share, leases, procurement contracts across contexts are very
> welcome :) I wish to look at the evolution of vendor restrictions (if any,
> although i think there would be ?)
>
> Happy to e-meet you all!
>
> Regards
> Anushka
> PhD Candidate, Institute for Information Law
> University of Amsterdam
>
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James W. Cortada
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Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
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