Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located onsite.
This collection consists of da Cruz's personal papers related to the 1968 Columbia student uprising, the history of computing at Columbia, and Columbia professor of astronomy and IBM pioneer Wallace Eckert.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located onsite.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
2010.2011.M086: Source of acquisition--Frank da Cruz. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--2011.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
Frank Da Cruz (CC 1970) served as a member of the Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) department, including Director, Communications Software Development. At Columbia, he helped create Kermit, a file transfer/management protocol, first used in 1981.
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