This collection contains files on the early development of UNIVAC and ASCII. It includes reports, notes, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, lists, diagrams, graphs, and manuals. Materials date from 1942 to 1969. Ralph E. Mullendore worked for the United States Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland, where he was a member of the ...
MoreThis collection contains files on the early development of UNIVAC and ASCII. It includes reports, notes, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, lists, diagrams, graphs, and manuals. Materials date from 1942 to 1969. Ralph E. Mullendore worked for the United States Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland, where he was a member of the team working on the nation's first computer, UNIVAC I. He worked for the bureau as a computer diagnostician and troubleshooter, retiring in 1984 after 33 years. He served in the United States Marine Corps and then as a Navy officer, attaining the rank of the commander. During World War II, he developed and patented an azimuth finder, a navigational aid used aboard Navy vessels. Mullendore was one of 70 members of the main development team for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
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