Archives & Manuscripts
CBI archival collections include the papers of prominent companies, individuals, professional associations as well as key government agencies. Searchable collection guides, or finding aids, are available via the University of Minnesota's Online Finding Aids web page.
How to Search for Charles Babbage Institute Finding Aids
All CBI collections with online finding aids can be searched at the Online Finding Aids web page: http://discover.lib.umn.edu/findaid. Upon entering the site, all Archives and Special Collections units with finding aids available are listed. To search a particular collection, the box next should to the unit name should be checked. To narrow your search to only CBI, uncheck all and then check only the box next to CBI. To conduct a broader search, include other Archives and Special Collections repositories by clicking the box next to the unit name.
Additional search tips are available on the Online Finding Aids page. Please note that while the archival finding aids, oral history transcripts and select photographs are available online, the actual archival content of most collections must be consulted at CBI. Please contact the archives for further information on how to access the archival material.
Listed below are CBI's collections with finding aids available online.
- Academic Computing Collection (CBI 61)
- ACT One Conference Materials (CBI 115)
- Ada Programming Language Materials (CBI 157)
- Alden W. Allen Papers (CBI 26)
- Amateur Computer Society Records (CBI 104)
- American Federation of Information Processing Societies Records (CBI 44)
- American National Standards Institute. X3H2 Records (CBI 168)
- American Society for Information Science and Technology, Minnesota Chapter (CBI 169)
- Florence R. Anderson Papers (CBI 101)
- Walter L. Anderson Papers (CBI 28)
- Applied Data Research, Software Products Division Records (CBI 154)
- Rolland B. Arndt Papers (CBI 56)
- Donald G. Aronson Papers (CBI 189)
- Association for Computing Machinery Los Angeles Chapter Special Interest Group on Programming Languages Working Group 4 PL/I Bulletin (CBI 35)
- Association for Computing Machinery Publications (CBI 110)
- Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics, SIGGRAPH Conference Publications (CBI 85)
- Association for Systems Management, Twin Cities Chapter Records (CBI 146)
- Association for Women in Computing (CBI 49)
- Association for Women in Computing Twin Cities Chapter Records (CBI 7)
- Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO) Records (CBI 172)
- Isaac L. Auerbach Papers (CBI 52)
- Auerbach Associates Records (CBI 30)
- Charles Babbage Collection (CBI 54)
- Charles W. Bachman Papers (CBI 125)
- Thomas Becker Collection of Macintosh Monographs (CBI 192)
- Edmund C. Berkeley Papers (CBI 50)
- James W. Birkenstock Collection of International Business Machines Corporation Records and British Tabulating Machine Company Histories (CBI 132)
- The William Blake Archive Project Records (CBI 174)
- Gertrude Blanch Papers (CBI 162)
- Herbert S. Bright Papers (CBI 42)
- Brunel University Department of Computer Science Computer Graphics Symposia Preprints (CBI 127)
- Warren P. Burrell Papers (CBI 124)
- Burroughs Corporation Records (CBI 90)
- California Computer Products, Inc. and Century Data Systems, Inc. vs. International Business Machines Corporation Records (CBI 2)
- Walter M. Carlson Papers (CBI 114)
- Charles T. Casale Compilation on Computer Industry Strategies (CBI 122)
- Borge M. Christensen Collection on General Electric (GE) Computing (CBI 191)
- Churchill Club Interviews and Lectures (CBI 147)
- Richard W. Clarke Collection on Magnetic Storage Drums (CBI 184)
- I. Bernard Cohen Papers (CBI 182)
- Computer and Communications Industry Association Antitrust Records (CBI 13)
- Computer Product Literature Collection (CBI 12)
- Computer Product Manuals Collection (CBI 60)
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Records (CBI 107)
- Conference on Data Systems Languages Records (CBI 11)
- Control Data Corporation Records (CBI 80)
- Control Data Systems, Inc. Press Releases (CBI 117)
- M. Eugene Cook Papers (CBI 151)
- Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc. Perceptron Press Conference Records (CBI 48)
- James W. Cortada Papers (CBI 185)
- CURTA Literature (CBI 180)
- Data Processing Management Association Records (CBI 88)
- Data Processing Management Association, Northwest Chapter Records (CBI 167)
- John S. Davis Papers (CBI 70)
- The Diebold Group, Inc., Client Reports (CBI 178)
- Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) Proceedings and Publications (CBI 150)
- Wallace J. Eckert Papers (CBI 9)
- EDUCOM Fall Conference Records (CBI 111)
- EDUCOM Survey Records (CBI 18)
- EDUCOM Working Papers (CBI 82)
- Betty Jo Ellis Papers (CBI 106)
- Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - Remington Rand - Sperry Rand Records (CBI 176)
- ENIAC Trial Exhibits Master Collection (CBI 145)
- Gordon Everest Collection of Monographs on Database Development (CBI 186)
- Jerome Garfunkel Papers (CBI 71)
- General Electric Company Computer Department Scrapbook (CBI 37)
- Bruce Gilchrist Papers (CBI 76)
- George Glaser Papers (CBI 23)
- Gordon D. Goldstein Papers (CBI 68)
- Martin A. Goetz Papers (CBI 159)
- Paul E. Grosjean Collection of Publications on Sinclair and Timex Sinclair Computers (CBI 112)
- GUIDE International Corporation Records (CBI 84)
- Carl Hammer Papers (CBI 3)
- Charles Hall Collection on the SNOBOL Programming Language (CBI 190)
- Robert V. Head Papers (CBI 170)
- William A. Higinbotham Computer Memorandum and Correspondence (CBI 131)
- History of Programming Languages Conference Records (CBI 19)
- Helmut Hoelzer Papers (CBI 33)
- Frances E. Holberton Papers (CBI 94)
- Honeywell, Inc. Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records (CBI 1)
- Honeywell, Inc. MULTICS Records (CBI 66)
- Honeywell, Inc. X3.2 Standards Subcommittee Records (CBI 67)
- Honeywell, Inc. Aerospace Division Survey of Small Digital Computers (CBI 69)
- Cuthbert C. Hurd Papers (CBI 95)
- Information Processing Bibliographies (CBI 91)
- Information Processing Glossaries (CBI 92)
- Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals Records (CBI 116)
- Institute for Graphic Communication Conference Preprints (CBI 109)
- International Business Machines Corporation Petroleum Conferences Contributed Papers (CBI 102)
- International Computing Collection (CBI 62)
- International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Conference Papers, 1966-1986 (CBI 196)
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 2.1 ALGOL Bulletin Records (CBI 29)
- International Summer School on Structured Programming and Program Structures Records (CBI 108)
- International Y2K Cooperation Center Records (CBI 153)
- Claude A. R. Kagan Papers (CBI 16)
- Brian Kahin Papers (CBI 194)
- Robert M. Kalb Papers (CBI 4)
- Walter A. Kleinschrod Collection of Monographs and Serials on Word Processing and Office Automation (CBI 188)
- Bryan S. Kocher Papers (CBI 103)
- Eldo C. Koenig Papers (CBI 53)
- Kenneth W. Kolence Collection of Association for Computing Machinery Publications (CBI 200)
- Earl R. Larson Papers (CBI 31)
- Robert V. Leacock ERA / Univac Scrapbooks (CBI 57)
- George Ledin, Jr. ALGOL: Vol. 1, A Reference Source Book Manuscript (CBI 59)
- Evan Linick Collection of Proceedings of the MARK IV User Group (CBI 130)
- Market and Product Reports Collection (CBI 55)
- John J. McCaffrey Memoirs (CBI 47)
- Mark P. McCahill Collection on Gopher (CBI 195)
- Daniel D. McCracken Papers (CBI 43)
- Alex McKenzie Collection of Computer Networking Development Records, 1969-1990 (CBI 123)
- Microelectronics and Information Sciences Center Records (CBI 5)
- Georgia B. Miller Collection of Data Processing Management Association, Office Systems Research Association, and American Management Society Records (CBI 128)
- Minnesota Joint Computer Conference (MJCC) Records (CBI 173)
- Curt A. Monash Papers (CBI 160)
- Monographs and Serials, In Process (CBI 8)
- Calvin N. Mooers Papers (CBI 81)
- John Purcell Nash Papers (CBI 14)
- National Bureau of Standards Computer Literature Collection (CBI 32)
- Albrecht J. Neumann Papers (CBI 83)
- William C. Norris Papers (CBI 164)
- Herbert Ohlman Papers (CBI 179)
- H.R. Oldfield Collection of General Electric Corporation Records (CBI 175)
- Paul M. Pair Papers (CBI 38)
- Donn B. Parker Papers (CBI 166)
- John E. Parker Papers (CBI 100)
- Patent Data Publications Computer Patent Abstracts (CBI 25)
- Peter C. Patton Class Notebooks (CBI 34)
- Alan J. Perlis Papers (CBI 64)
- Charles A. Phillips Papers (CBI 39)
- Robert W. Pomeroy Papers (CBI 198)
- Robert M. Price Papers (CBI 193)
- RAND Corporation Symposia Transcripts (CBI 78)
- RAND Corporation Symposium on Mathematical Programming Records (CBI 79)
- Donald Ross, Jr. Papers (CBI 197)
- Russian, Soviet, and Eastern Bloc Computing Collection (CBI 148)
- SC34 Committee Records (CBI 199)
- Louis Schlueter MAPPER Collection (CBI 121)
- Claire K. Schultz Papers (CBI 86)
- SHARE, Inc. Records (CBI 21)
- Charles Albert Eugene Smith Papers (CBI 17)
- Edward F. Somers Papers (CBI 65)
- Sperry and Unisys Reference Manuals (CBI 187)
- Sperry Rand Corporation Univac Division Honeywell vs. Sperry Litigation Records (CBI 72)
- Sperry Rand Corporation Univac Federal Systems Division Univac Computers (CBI 129)
- Noel T. Stone Papers (CBI 58)
- John Swearingen Papers (CBI 46)
- Erwin Tomash Collection of Dataproducts Corporation Records (CBI 134)
- Twin Cities Osborne Group (CBI 119)
- Uncataloged Serials (CBI 152)
- United States Government Computing Collection (CBI 63)
- University of Chicago Department of Meteorology Numerical Weather Prediction Survey Records (CBI 36)
- University of Illinois Computer-based Education Research Laboratory PLATO Reports, PLATO Documents, and CERL Progress Reports (CBI 133)
- University of Michigan Willow Run Research Center Special Course on Digital Computers (CBI 15)
- USE, Inc. Records (CBI 20)
- Francis V. Wagner Papers (CBI 6)
- Willis H. Ware Papers (CBI 40)
- Milton R. Wessel (CBI 120)
- Irving Wieselman Papers (CBI 97)
- Joan M. Winters Papers (CBI 22)
- Frederic G. Withington Papers (CBI 183)