Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference
I am told by our physics library that the International History of Computing Conference at Los Alamos in 1976 was recorded (audio). Are others aware of these recordings? I am attempting to recover these recordings from our library and do something sensible with them as part of our history of computing at Los Alamos project. Talks by Stan Ulam, Mauchly, Burks, and dozens of others are potentially salvageable (something like 30 hours of audio). If someone has already restored these gems, let me know and I won't bother. Thanks Gary Grider High Performance Computing Division Leader Los Alamos National Laboratory
There are copies of some of these tapes in the Arthur Burks papers at IUPUI. I did not try to play them and cannot comment on their quality. I do not believe he had the full set. http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat/index.php/centers/arthur_burks_collection I'm actually very interested in the Nick Metropolis papers which appear to be at LANL, but for which there seems to be no route for scholarly access in less than the glacial time periods involved with FOIA. Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Grider, Gary A Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:28 PM To: 'members' Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference I am told by our physics library that the International History of Computing Conference at Los Alamos in 1976 was recorded (audio). Are others aware of these recordings? I am attempting to recover these recordings from our library and do something sensible with them as part of our history of computing at Los Alamos project. Talks by Stan Ulam, Mauchly, Burks, and dozens of others are potentially salvageable (something like 30 hours of audio). If someone has already restored these gems, let me know and I won't bother. Thanks Gary Grider High Performance Computing Division Leader Los Alamos National Laboratory _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
I have a copy of the complete set of cassette tapes and am planning to digitize soon. Send me info about what you want from Nick's at LANL and I can see if I can apply some grease. Thanks Gary -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Haigh [thaigh@computer.org<mailto:thaigh@computer.org>] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 02:09 PM Mountain Standard Time To: Grider, Gary A; 'members' Subject: RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference There are copies of some of these tapes in the Arthur Burks papers at IUPUI. I did not try to play them and cannot comment on their quality. I do not believe he had the full set. http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat/index.php/centers/arthur_burks_collection I'm actually very interested in the Nick Metropolis papers which appear to be at LANL, but for which there seems to be no route for scholarly access in less than the glacial time periods involved with FOIA. Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Grider, Gary A Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:28 PM To: 'members' Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference I am told by our physics library that the International History of Computing Conference at Los Alamos in 1976 was recorded (audio). Are others aware of these recordings? I am attempting to recover these recordings from our library and do something sensible with them as part of our history of computing at Los Alamos project. Talks by Stan Ulam, Mauchly, Burks, and dozens of others are potentially salvageable (something like 30 hours of audio). If someone has already restored these gems, let me know and I won't bother. Thanks Gary Grider High Performance Computing Division Leader Los Alamos National Laboratory _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Hi Gary, CHM has a set of the *video*tapes of that conference. See: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=los+alamos+1976&type=all&t=objects&f=movingimage At some point, CHM will post these onto its YouTube channel… Best, Dag On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Grider, Gary A <ggrider@lanl.gov> wrote:
I have a copy of the complete set of cassette tapes and am planning to digitize soon.
Send me info about what you want from Nick's at LANL and I can see if I can apply some grease.
Thanks Gary
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Haigh [thaigh@computer.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 02:09 PM Mountain Standard Time To: Grider, Gary A; 'members' Subject: RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference
There are copies of some of these tapes in the Arthur Burks papers at IUPUI. I did not try to play them and cannot comment on their quality. I do not believe he had the full set. http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat/index.php/centers/arthur_burks_collection
I'm actually very interested in the Nick Metropolis papers which appear to be at LANL, but for which there seems to be no route for scholarly access in less than the glacial time periods involved with FOIA.
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Grider, Gary A Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:28 PM To: 'members' Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Recordings of the 1976 International History of Computing Conference
I am told by our physics library that the International History of Computing Conference at Los Alamos in 1976 was recorded (audio).
Are others aware of these recordings?
I am attempting to recover these recordings from our library and do something sensible with them as part of our history of computing at Los Alamos project. Talks by Stan Ulam, Mauchly, Burks, and dozens of others are potentially salvageable (something like 30 hours of audio).
If someone has already restored these gems, let me know and I won't bother.
Thanks Gary Grider High Performance Computing Division Leader Los Alamos National Laboratory
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