COMPUTER HISTORY -- as "seen by" Bob Bemer
(and sometimes as "made by")

Stories

click	Topic
V01	NIXON, National Computer Year, and Impeachment
V02	COLOSSUS -- Word Processor of World War II
V03	International Computer Standards
V04	War and Perspective
V05	Who Was Shakuntala Devi?
V06	Computer Goofs - Line Printers
V07	How Bob Bemer Ended Up as a Programmer, Despite Kindergarten
V08	LOCKHEED - Early Computing at the California Division
V09	IBM - PRINT I -- The First Load-and-Go System
V10	IBM - FORTRANSIT -- The Second Fortran Processor
V11	IBM - A Who's Who of Early FORTRAN Days
V12	IBM - Origins of Timesharing
V13	IBM - Accidental Birth of the IBM 7070 Computer System
V14	IBM - EBCDIC and the P-bit -- Biggest Computer Goof Ever
V15	IBM - How ASCII Got Its Backslash
V16	IBM - That Powerful ESCAPE Character -- Key and Sequences
V17	Answers for a Canadian 6th-Grader
V18	IBM - The Original Paper on ESCape
V19	IBM - Why is a Byte 8 Bits? Or is it?
V20	IBM - HiJinks at a Very Staid Company
V21	IBM - Chess to Come
V22	IBM - The Faces of Gambling (Eight of Them)
V23	IBM - A Little Non-Traveling Music
V24	IBM - The Selectric Typewriter
V25	IBM - The Jack Sterling Show
V26	IBM - Power of the Printed Word
V27	IBM - Its Dress Code
V28	IBM - Bemer Meets Europe
V29	IBM - Why I Left For UNIVAC
V30	UNIVAC - Trying to Make Better Software than IBM's
V31	UNIVAC - and Computer Sciences Corporation
V32	UNIVAC - SIMULA -- The First Object-Oriented Language Processor
V33	Bull GE - An American Programmer in Paris -- 1965-1966
V34	Bull GE - An American at a French Computer Maker - 1965-1966
V35	Bull GE - A View of the Delights of Paris - 1965-1966
V36	Bull GE - Paris Visitors - 1965-1966
V37	GE - Accent on the Phoenix Computer Department - 1966 to 1970
V38	GE - Why Don't Software and Hardware Talk to Each Other?
V39	GE - Have You Ever Been To Mahwah?
V40	GE - Masterpiece Engineering at the Rome NATO Conference
V41	GE/Honeywell - Working on Moon Mountain
V42	The POET Effect - The Persistence Of Established Technology
V43	Dijkstra Meets Bachman
V44	GE - General Electric Meets A Millisecond
V45	GE - Helping the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration -- Ha Ha Ha
V46	IBM - Sued For $300 Million Over The ALT Key
V47	IBM - Explaining Coded Character Sets to a Jury
V48	ASCII -- The Interface Age Articles
V49	ASCII -- and the Mark of the Beast
V50	IBM - ASCII and Beyond -- The ISO Registry
V51	Meter/Metre and Your Spell Checker
V52	That Pesky Sobriquet Father of --
V53	The Babel of Codes Prior to ASCII!
V54	Our Canadian Student Reports the IEEE Awards
V55	New Yorker Magazine -- 1957 Interview of Bemer
V56	History of Internet/Web Concepts
V57	Calvin Mooers -- The "Click" Man
V58	Getting to Know a Berners-Lee
V59	An Appreciation of Eric Clamons
V60	An E-Interview with Hugh McGregor Ross
V61	Starting the Lockheed Missiles and Space Div. Computer Dept.

Stories in Waiting

click	Topic
V70	IMPACT
V71	IBM - The Beginnings of ASCII
V72	GE - Origin of the Software Factory (how Detroit does it)
V73	GE - 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering
V74	GE - 1969 NATO Conference on Software Engineering
V75	Fun and Profit with the Information Separators of ASCII
V76	Computers that Sight-Read -- Some Early OCR Stories
V77	Helping the U.S. Post Office -- Ha Ha
V78	HIS - The Screen Environment(R)
V79	HIS - The TEX Language (not Don Knuth's)
V80

Scanned Reference Documents

click	Document
S01,02	Computers and our Society -- still pertinent from 1973
S--	INSIDE ASCII -- The Interface Age Articles
S--	Datamation Articles on ASCII
S--	Escape to Reality -- Datamation Forum

Travel Logs

click	Period
T01	Bob Bemer's Trips - Lockheed & IBM
T02	Bob Bemer's Trips - Univac
T03	Bob Bemer's Trips - Bull GE
T04	Bob Bemer's Trips - General Electric
T05	Bob Bemer's Trips - Honeywell
T06	Bob Bemer's Trips - First Retirement
T07	Bob Bemer's Trips - Y2K Period
T08	Bob Bemer's Trips - Character Sets Only