<div dir="ltr">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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="m_9021700062700346445zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear Anushka,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">You will find thick piles of such contracts in the historical archives of </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">- Bull, conserved in the ANMT at Lille-Roubaix</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">- ICL in Britain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">- Control Data, conserved at the CBI in Minneapolis (great place to work !)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">- closer from your location, Philips and Electrologica</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">- clients – banks, atomic energy authorities, electricity or oil companies, CERN in Geneva, etc.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> <p style="margin:0px"><span lang="EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">The archives of the French computer industry</span><span lang="EN-US">”</span><span lang="EN-US">, <i>Entreprises et Histoire</i>, juin 2014, n° 75, p. 120-123.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://shs.cairn.info/article/EH_075_0120?lang=fr" target="_blank">https://shs.cairn.info/article/EH_075_0120?lang=fr</a></span></p> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">In what sort of vendor restrictions are you interested ?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Regards</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</div></div><div><br></div><hr id="m_9021700062700346445zwchr"><div><b>De: </b>"anushka via Members" <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br><b>À: </b>"members" <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 8 Août 2025 19:47:58<br><b>Objet: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] Looking for earliest mainframe contracts and computer contracts archive<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear SIGCIS members</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">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 ?)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Happy to e-meet you all!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Regards</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Anushka</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">PhD Candidate, Institute for Information Law</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">University of Amsterdam </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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