Computer History Museum | Oral History of Robert Belleville part 1 of 2 @ComputerHistory | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Interviewed by Robert Garner and Chris Gracia on 2016-08-22 in Mountain View, CA
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Bob Belleville's career in the world of computing started in 1965 at Purdue University and took him through many problem solving tasks with many companies including Silicon Valley's SRI, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer where he lead the hardware and software development of the original Macintosh computer, Appletalk network, and laser printer.
Part 1 of this oral history interviewed by Robert Garner, Bob talks about Sputnik, the H-bomb finite element analysis of cardboard, labor relation grievance procedure scheduling, and the testing of an Army truck using the computers of the time including IBM 7094, IBM
360 and more.
At SRI (then Stanford Research International) he worked in the pioneering Augment Research Center (ARC) with Doug Engelbart. His story then moves to Xerox in the mid 70's and the creation of team to design Xerox's 8010 Star processor. Finally a call from Steve Jobs took him to Apple in the mid 80's.
Part 1 ends with Bob describing his home-brew computer built in the 70's and now on display in the Computer History Museum.
* Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717192
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
Catalog Number: 102717193
Acquisition Number: X7919.2017
Interviewed by Robert Garner and Chris Gracia on 2016-08-22 in Mountain View, CA
© Computer History Museum
Bob Belleville's career in the world of computing started in 1965 at Purdue University and took him through many problem solving tasks with many companies including Silicon Valley's SRI, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer where he lead the hardware and software development of the original Macintosh computer, Appletalk network, and laser printer.
Part 1 of this oral history interviewed by Robert Garner, Bob talks about Sputnik, the H-bomb finite element analysis of cardboard, labor relation grievance procedure scheduling, and the testing of an Army truck using the computers of the time including IBM 7094, IBM
360 and more.
At SRI (then Stanford Research International) he worked in the pioneering Augment Research Center (ARC) with Doug Engelbart. His story then moves to Xerox in the mid 70's and the creation of team to design Xerox's 8010 Star processor. Finally a call from Steve Jobs took him to Apple in the mid 80's.
Part 1 ends with Bob describing his home-brew computer built in the 70's and now on display in the Computer History Museum.
* Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717192
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
Catalog Number: 102717193
Acquisition Number: X7919.2017
