Dag, This is fabulous. List members might be interested to know that I recently took an hour-long oral history with Ms. Berezin as background for my work on the literary history of word processing. She relates many of the same stories in a good deal more detail (and also has others besides!) Truly a fascinating and accomplished computing pioneer. Matt On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:
Dear friends,
I thought you might enjoy this short film we created here at CHM about Eveyln Berezin, whom we made a CHM Fellow this year (along with Charles Bachman and Bjarne Stroustrup). These films were shown at the Fellow Awards ceremony last Saturday. Berezin designed some of the earliest commercial electronic computers for such firms as Elecom (Underwood) and Teleregister, including a massive-scale airline reservation system based on a triplex-CPU that didn’t fail once over its 11-year lifetime. She then started her own electronics manufacturing company building a groundbreaking word processing system (known as “The Data Secretary”), which grew to 500 employees at which point she sold the firm to Burroughs.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMF9poE2bAc
Dag
For the companion films..
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcC26nnipxs
Charles Bachman, database pioneer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_gwrrS3jY -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311
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