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A recollection by
Jack Palmer (John H.)
of the names of IBM personnel who, working in Time-Life building New York City,
planned and/or wrote the early general purpose programs for the IBM 1401.

Managers' names are included through the level that had responsibility for program specifications.

Attachment to "Early IBM 1401 General Purpose Programming" Dated:March 13, 2009

Dave Alcalay
David
1401 Simulator




Irene Auerbach


Fortran + ? Later married N. Richard Werthamer



Sam Codella
Samuel V. *





Art Fischer
Arthur






Larry Foster
C. Lawrence
1401 Simulator




Julien Green








Lennie Haines
Leonard H.
Fortran




Linda Heitner


Fortran, IOCS




Art Kasakove
Arthur






Jack Laffan
John (?) C.(?)
1401 Simulator




Herb Lauring
Herbert E.
Sort




Dave Macklin
David Project Manager




Gary Mokotoff


SPS, Autocoder, Fortran




Ed Opengart
Edward S.
Sort




Jack Palmer
John H.
Manager




Frank Quigley
Frank M.

Note 1



Ken Ross
Kenneth G. *





Norbert Seif

*





Paulette Sicard



Later married Charles W. Tidd



Bernie Silkowitz
Bernard R. * RPG




Stan Smillie
Stanley F.
Fortran




Bob Spitzner
Robert C. *





Lou Stabile
Louis *





Jim Toner
James W. * Sort




Marty Weitzman
Martin A.
Sort




John Wertheim

* Autocoder, ?




Arnie Wolf
Arnold S.
Manager




Barbara Wood
Barbara L.
RPG




John Wood
John W. *
















* Moved to the
Endicott NY laboratory
in 1961



















Note 1: Frank Quigley worked in Endicott, not NYC, but he did early planning work on the assembly program that came to be named 1401 SPS, and consulted with those in NYC who implemented it.