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1946 - 1982
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Contains the records of the SDC, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the SDC; Also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, poduct literature, technical iterature, reports, and a subject file; unpublished inventory available from the repository; Forms part of the Burroughs Corporations Records.
Collection contains the records of the System Development Corporation, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the System Development Corporation. It also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, product literature, technical literature, reports on systems engineering, systems design, human-computer interaction, and user interfaces, and a subject file.
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https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/201
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Stanford University, Department of Special Collections.
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1957 - 1993
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Found in the System Development Foundation records; SDF was created in 1969 as a non-profit funding organization during the transition of the SDC to for-profit status; contains research files and project reports, which are arranged by grant number; there is an index at the end of the guide arranged by recipient, institution, and subject of project.
System Development Foundation executive records, research program files, financial files, administrative files, subject files of people and places, other materials
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https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf429003m4/entire_text/
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Revision as of 09:41, 15 September 2023

ORGANIZATION:

System Development Corporation

ACTIVE DATES:

1956-

ADDRESS:

Santa Monica, CA

E-MAIL:

PERSONS INVOLVED:

Harold Borko; Carlos A. Cuadra; James L. Dolby; Lauren Doyle; Herbert M. Ohlman

MAJOR PROJECTS:

OTHER INFORMATION:

SDC grew out of the Rand Corp.'s System Research Laboratory (a USAF think-tank) and an MIT Lincoln Labs project - SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), an air defense system. SAGE was the "first computer-based, real-time, online, manmachine system;" and "it revolutionized the information industry by spanning the prehistoric computer era of serial batch processing and the modern world of interactive systems;" (The System Builders, p. 20)

The "convergence of the two projects came when the Rand Corporation agreed to provide the software programming for SAGE in 1955; Starting with only five Rand programmers, the SAGE project and staff grew quickly and soon totaled more people than the RAND Corporation itself; 1955 - project became the independent System Development Division; 1956 - it's role, size and future prospects as a systems designer conflicted with Rand's charter as a researcher for the USAF; 1956 - new, non-profit corp. formed - SDC; 1981 - became an independent Burroughs Corporation subsidiary.

SOURCE:

PAPERS AT:
LOCATION

University of Minnesota, Charles Babbage Institute

PAPERS DATES:

1946-1982

SIZE:

23 cubic feet

INCLUDES:

Collection contains the records of the System Development Corporation, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the System Development Corporation. It also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, product literature, technical literature, reports on systems engineering, systems design, human-computer interaction, and user interfaces, and a subject file.

SOURCE:

https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/201

PAPERS AT:
LOCATION #2

Stanford University, Department of Special Collections

PAPERS DATES:

1957-1993

SIZE:

170 linear feet

INCLUDES:

System Development Foundation executive records, research program files, financial files, administrative files, subject files of people and places, other materials

SOURCE:

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf429003m4/entire_text/

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