About the Collection
The Texas Instruments Records physical collection comprises more than 1500 cubic feet of corporate records, photographs, and artifacts. The archive includes records of TI's predecessor company, Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI), papers of key executives, documents from key projects, early inventions, prototype products, and samples of consumer and business products. The collection documents the company's extraordinary history, breadth of technological expertise, and role in the technological revolution.
The Texas Instruments Records digital collection contains hundreds of photographic images and documents from the Texas Instruments Records archive held by SMU’s DeGolyer Library and/or Texas Instruments (TI) headquarters. Each item includes information about its relationship to TI’s corporate and technological history.
DeGolyer Library also holds the Jack Kilby Papers, Jack Kilby Photographs, and J. Erik Jonsson Papers.
Items from the following Record Groups in the finding aid are available online.
- RG-01 Executive Office Chairman, President, Secretary, Legal
- RG-04 Strategic Development, Corporate Communications, Corporate Marketing, Corporate Research Development & Engineering, Strategic Synthesis (Planning), Licensing
- RG-05 Corporate Services, People and Asset Effectiveness, Facilities, Material
- RG-06 Semiconductor Group
- RG-07 Data Systems Group
- RG-08 Defense Systems and Electronics Group (Equipment Group)
- RG-09 Materials and Controls Group
- RG-12 Information Systems and Services
- RG-13 Geophysical Systems Division
- RG-14 Consumer Products Division
- RG-20 Publications
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