Hi David, I just finished my dissertation on the history of video games and computing in Spain (1980s). I conducted 15 interviews to different collectives such as programmers, entrepreneurs, politicians and members of a computer club of users. Even though I have their digital recordings, the transcriptions were made in Spanish. Let me know if I can be of help. Ignasi Meda-Calvet ________________________________ De: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> de part de Subramanian, Ramesh Prof. <Ramesh.Subramanian@quinnipiac.edu> Enviat el: dimarts, 6 de febrer de 2018 17:09 Per a: David C. Brock; members Tema: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Active institutional or individual oral history efforts in history of computing *outside* US Hello David, I don't know if this helps. I have worked on the history of computing (actually, ICTs) in India for the past 10 years. I cannot say that my research has been 'oral history project,' but I did interview numerous actors, and transcribed them for my papers. 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Dear Tom, Thank you very much! In looking at the material about the program on the Web, it was not clear to me if the oral history work with “computer people” specifically continues at present. Could you let me and the list a bit more about where the effort stands at the moment, and may be going in the future? Best wishes, David .............. David C. Brock Director Center for Software History [http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/] Computer History Museum [http://www.computerhistory.org/] Email: dbrock@computerhistory.org<mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org> Twitter: @dcbrock Skype: dcbrock 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94943 (650) 810-1010 main (650) 810-1886 direct Follow Us: @CHM Blog [http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/] Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/computerhistory] Twitter [https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/computerhistory/] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory] Make Software, Change the World! Now Open. [http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/makesoftware/] On Feb 7, 2018, at 5:24 AM, Lean, Tom <Thomas.Lean@bl.uk<mailto:Thomas.Lean@bl.uk>> wrote: National Life Stories at the British Library has about a dozen life story interviews with "computer people" with careers from the 1940s to the present day, recorded as part of the Oral History of British Science (OHBS) project. We also have interviews with people in other technical fields remarking about computers entering their working lives, along with a few others who developed technologies that computing would come to rely on, such as liquid crystal displays. Most of the interviews are accessible in their entirety, most 12 hours or longer, many with transcripts, through: https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science There are also edited highlights on our Voices of Science web resource at: https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/themes/designing-and-programming-compute... and https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/themes/computers-in-use Tom Dr Thomas Lean -- An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry / An Oral History of British Science National Life Stories The British Library http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science ________________________________________ From: Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of David C. Brock [dbrock@computerhistory.org] Sent: 06 February 2018 15:58 To: members Cc: David C. Brock Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Active institutional or individual oral history efforts in history of computing *outside* US I would like to get a better sense of which institutions or individuals are actively creating oral histories in the history of computing, broadly conceived, *outside* of the US. I’m posting the question here because I’d bet others would like to know as well. Thanks in advance for your help. Best wishes, David .............. David C. Brock Director Center for Software History [http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/] Computer History Museum [http://www.computerhistory.org/] Email: dbrock@computerhistory.org Twitter: @dcbrock Skype: dcbrock 1401 N. 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Hi David, there are a lot of resources in Germany, too. Not only the personal collections, but also institutional ones. For example you’ve got this portal with oral history interviews which you can search for „Computer“ for example: http://www.zeitzeugen-portal.de/suche?q=Computer Also there were several projects like Siefkes, D. et. al. (Hgg.) (1999): Pioniere der Informatik Ihre Lebensgeschichte im Interview, Berlin, Heidelberg. Like Gleb, the situation with our current project on computerization is that it will also produce some OH material coming next years. Our institute is thinking about hosting them. Let me know if there is an interest for cooperation with our institute. Best Martin Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Doktorand | digital enthusiast ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG | POTSDAM Mail: schmitt@zzf-potsdam.de <mailto:schmitt@zzf-pdm.de> Tel: +49 331 - 74510-119 http://www.zzf-pdm.de/site/991/Default.aspx BLOG - www.computerisierung.com Vice Chair of IFIP WG 9.7 „History of computing" Neu erschienen: Martin Schmitt - Internet im Kalten Krieg. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index/sArticle/3569

Am 08.02.2018 um 14:12 schrieb Lean, Tom <Thomas.Lean@bl.uk>:

Hi David,

I'm afraid this is one of those no/yes answers! The An Oral History of British Science programme in general continues, but we're not collecting "computer people" at present, however I wouldn't rule out more in future as strategy/funding allows. Interestingly, some of the "non-computing people" we're collecting in other fields have episodes of the their careers when they might be considered to be "computer people" even if I wouldn't define them as such. (For example, in the last year or so, a couple of people who spent episodes of their careers working on aspects of silicon chip-making at IBM and Ferranti, but would probably be classified as materials scientists or electronics engineers.)

I guess the interesting issues that the responses to this thread raise for me, are:

What are the boundaries of oral history of computing? If any, given that computing is so very cross-disciplinary.

And, what oral history of computing is lurking in other oral history collections on different subjects? For instance, there's quite a bit of material on National Grid's computer systems (used to plan/operate the UK wide transmission grid) in some interviews in our Oral History of Electricity Supply Industry collection, but I'd not automatically think about any of those interviewees as being "computer people."

best,

Tom

Dr Thomas Lean -- An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry / An Oral History of British Science National Life Stories The British Library http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science ________________________________________ From: David C. Brock [dbrock@computerhistory.org] Sent: 07 February 2018 15:28 To: Lean, Tom Cc: David C. Brock; members Subject: Re: Active institutional or individual oral history efforts in history of computing *outside* US

Dear Tom,

Thank you very much!

In looking at the material about the program on the Web, it was not clear to me if the oral history work with “computer people” specifically continues at present.

Could you let me and the list a bit more about where the effort stands at the moment, and may be going in the future?

Best wishes,

David

.............. David C. Brock Director Center for Software History [http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/] Computer History Museum [http://www.computerhistory.org/]

Email: dbrock@computerhistory.org<mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org> Twitter: @dcbrock Skype: dcbrock

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On Feb 7, 2018, at 5:24 AM, Lean, Tom <Thomas.Lean@bl.uk<mailto:Thomas.Lean@bl.uk>> wrote:

National Life Stories at the British Library has about a dozen life story interviews with "computer people" with careers from the 1940s to the present day, recorded as part of the Oral History of British Science (OHBS) project. We also have interviews with people in other technical fields remarking about computers entering their working lives, along with a few others who developed technologies that computing would come to rely on, such as liquid crystal displays.

Most of the interviews are accessible in their entirety, most 12 hours or longer, many with transcripts, through: https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science

There are also edited highlights on our Voices of Science web resource at: https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/themes/designing-and-programming-compute... and https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/themes/computers-in-use

Tom

Dr Thomas Lean -- An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry / An Oral History of British Science National Life Stories The British Library http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science ________________________________________ From: Members [members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of David C. Brock [dbrock@computerhistory.org] Sent: 06 February 2018 15:58 To: members Cc: David C. Brock Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Active institutional or individual oral history efforts in history of computing *outside* US

I would like to get a better sense of which institutions or individuals are actively creating oral histories in the history of computing, broadly conceived, *outside* of the US.

I’m posting the question here because I’d bet others would like to know as well.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best wishes,

David

.............. David C. Brock Director Center for Software History [http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/] Computer History Museum [http://www.computerhistory.org/]

Email: dbrock@computerhistory.org Twitter: @dcbrock Skype: dcbrock

1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94943 (650) 810-1010 main (650) 810-1886 direct

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