10 Sep
2007
10 Sep
'07
3:38 a.m.
He was apparently at the GE Computer Division
in the early days, and designed one of GE's process
control computers, and was previously working for
RCA on the Bizmac program. See Homer R. Oldfield,
"King of the Seven Dwarfs: General Electric's
Ambiguous
Challenge to the Computer Industry", IEEE Computer
Society Press, 1996.
--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Interesting bit of trivia I discovered today.
I was digitizing an oral history recorded in Mar
1988 with
Arnie Spielberg today, and it turns out he was the
architect
of the 1800/1130 at IBM San Jose before becoming VP
of Engineering
at SDS in 1965.
A transcript will be up on the CHM web site
eventually, and will
post a URL when it's available.