SWAC-Standards Western Automatic Computer: the Pioneer Day session at NCC July 1978

This is an edited transcript of the Pioneer Day session that took place at the 1978 NCC Conference. It was a panel session, moderated by Harry Huskey, that included short talks by the people that built and used the SWAC computer. After Huskey´s introduction, Harry T. Larson provided some of the engineering details of SWAC, R. Thorensen then told of some of the later developments that took place with the machine, Mike Melkanoff gave some idea of how this machine was used at UCLA, and finally Dick Lehmer said something about the applications that SWAC ran