DOME COLLECTIONS | Institute Archives & Special Collections or Project Whirlwind |
COLLECTION | Project Whirlwind, (Archives collection number: MC 665) |
Content | Records related to the work of Project Whirlwind. An MIT research project which produced MIT's first high-speed digital computer and "magnetic core memory". Project directed by Jay Forrester. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Whirlwind 
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Size | 1800 PDFs of research memos and reports; 5,000 photo negatives, # boxes of paper documents |
Age | 1946 1944-1954 1958 |
Source | Currently MITRE Corporation ; about to be transferred to MIT Archives Archives held material since 1958; paper documents and digital files on 8 CDs were transferred to the Institute Archives Research in 2007 and 2008. Project Whirlwind research itself was carried out at MIT in the Servomechanisms Laboratory, the Digital Computer Laboratory, and in Lincoln Laboratory Division 6 |
Rights | MIT Research; government funded (all documents have been de-classified) |
Anticipated Audience | researchers Rsearchers interested in the history of computing and MIT's role role |
Benefits | Promotional, first foray into documenting computers and making that information available on-line. |
Format Risk | Completeness of paper collection has not yet been completely discerned. It is not clear if all digital images have paper originals It's possible some digital iitems are stand alone. |
Format | PDFs. Photo negatives. Paper |
Metadata | needs Needs descriptive metadata, there are lists of administrative, report, memo, and engineering note series, as well as information on the documents themselves |
Funding | ? |
Other Comments | We have the The Institute Archives has related material: the papers of Jay Forrester, along with many other related collections. and records of the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory |
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