MATICICH, John Richard.

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The computing archive of John Richard Maticich (1933-2014). This archive offers a concentrated view of the rise of the American computer industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, charting the career of engineer and founder John Maticich across Autonetics, Interstate Electronics, Floating Point Systems, and Mentor Graphics. It begins with his early work on semiconductor materials and transistor design and follows him through major developments in military, scientific, and commercial computing, from inertial navigation and missile-guidance systems to array processors, early touch-screen and speech-recognition experiments, and the dawn of computer-aided design. The collection spans more than 350 items - notes, reports, offprints, photographs, manuals, and confidential internal papers - many unpublished at the time of creation and preserved with exemplary orderliness.The material reveals the daily realities of engineering work and the rapid evolution of computing hardware, software, and organisational structures during a period of intense innovation. It documents research programmes, experimental technologies, marketing and financial strategies, and the shifting relationship between military contractors, universities, and private firms. It also captures the emergence of Oregon's Silicon Forest, notably through Maticich's senior roles at Floating Point Systems and Mentor Graphics, and illustrates how companies expanded, merged, and adapted as the minicomputer and CAD markets accelerat

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