System Development Corporation
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ORGANIZATION: |
System Development Corporation |
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ACTIVE DATES: |
1956- |
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ADDRESS: |
Santa Monica, CA |
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PERSONS INVOLVED: |
Harold Borko; Carlos A. Cuadra; James L. Dolby; Lauren Doyle; Herbert M. Ohlman |
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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. |
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SOURCE: |
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PAPERS AT: |
University of Minnesota, Charles Babbage Institute |
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PAPERS DATES: |
1946-1982 |
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SIZE: |
23 cubic feet |
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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. |
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SOURCE: |
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PAPERS AT: |
Stanford University, Department of Special Collections |
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PAPERS DATES: |
1957-1993 |
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SIZE: |
170 linear feet |
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INCLUDES: |
System Development Foundation executive records, research program files, financial files, administrative files, subject files of people and places, other materials |
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SOURCE: |
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf429003m4/entire_text/ |