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Notes taken on journey to Canada and USA, 1952

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MS. Eng. misc. b. 258/C.33
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Blue exercise-book of notes taken on journey to Canada and USA, September 1952.

Includes an account of preliminary talks with Professor Watson about the St. Lawrence Seaway project (see MS. Eng. misc. b. 259/C.37 and MS. Eng. misc. b. 259/C.38), of discussions and people met at the A.C.M. Conference, and of Strachey's visits to firms and universities in the USA to see work in progress on computers, with his views on the various methods, programs, costings, etc. of Harvard Mark IV, RCA Bizmac, and UNIVAC machines.

Dates

  • Creation: 1952

Extent

1 file

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. misc. b. 258/C.33

Former reference:

CSAC 71.1.80/C.33

Related Materials

See MS. Eng. misc. b. 297/H.2 for a similar notebook kept on Strachey's journey to the USA in 1957.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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