Collection includes materials related to the operations of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, including budgets (1984-99), memos (1985-91), organizational and space plans (1983-91), committee minutes (1984-2000), student and staff personnel files (1986-99), correspondence and purchasing agreements with technology companies, including Cray Computing, IBM, Apple Computers, AT&T, and Apollo Computer, Inc. (1984-99), correspondence with other national supercomputing centers (1986-98) including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, files of the Industrial Program (1987-97), which included the companies Allstate Insurance Co., American Airlines, Caterpillar Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Co., J.P. Morgan, McDonnell Douglas, Monsanto, Eastman Kodak Company, Eli Lilly and Company,Sears, Roebuck & Co., Shell Oil Company, Tribune Company, and United Technologies Corporation, a subject file on the NCSA's relationship with the University of Illinois administration (1984-97), applications to the Cray Research and Development Grant Program (1985-91), media contacts and correspondence (1983-98) correspondence with and testimony for federal and state agencies (1984-96) including members of Congress, the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Department of Defense, NCSA staff publications (1986-92), and a history of the NCSA (1985-91).