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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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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