February 15, 2006 Mountain View, CA In February 2006, the Software Industry Special Industry Group conducted a workshop for founders of a number of professional services companies in the 1950s through the 1970s. The workshop was recorded and the transcript Read More …
November 2004 Mountain View, CA On November 19, 2004, the Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Industry Group) convened a second meeting of PC Software pioneers to share their knowledge of the early days of the Read More …
May 6, 2004 Needham, MA On May 6, 2004, the Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Industry Group) convened a meeting of PC Software pioneers in Needham, MA to share their knowledge of the early days Read More …
May 3-4, 2002 Washington, DC On May 3 – 4, 2002, the Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Interest Group) assembled a group of people who had been active in ADAPSO in its early decades to Read More …
September 24, 2000 Palo Alto, CA On September 22 and 23, 2000, The Charles Babbage Institute sponsored a conference in Palo Alto, CA, on the impact of IBM’s decision in 1969 to unbundle the price of software from the price Read More …
Sachs, Jonathan Developer of Lotus 1-2-3 Sanden, Lynn Manager of Personnel at Tymshare Schachter, Oscar President of ACT Schmidt, Dave Co-founder of Tymshare Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (Larry) [1985] Co-founder of AGS Computer Systems Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (Larry) [2002] Co-founder of Read More …
Newcomer, Bill Founder of Dylakor Nie, Norman Founder of SPSS O’Rourke, Tom Co-founder of Tymshare Patrick, Robert L. Computer systems and applications consultant Phillips, John Founder of Medics Corporation Pisarro, Nick, et al. NCSS employees re RAMIS and NOMAD Piscopo, Read More …
Imlay, John CEO of MSA Jacobs, Ken VP at Oracle Johnson, Franklin Pitcher (Pitch) Silicon Valley venture capitalist Johnson, Luanne Founder of Argonaut Information Systems Kapor, Mitch Founder of Lotus Development Corp. Keane, John F. Founder of Keane, Inc. Keet, Read More …
Esber, Edward M., Jr. President of Ashton-Tate Feinleib, Harold, et al. NCSS employees re RAMIS and NOMAD Frank, Werner Co-founder of Informatics Frankston, Robert and Dan Bricklin Developers of Visicalc Fylstra, Dan Founder of Personal Software Inc. and VisiCorp Gentry, Read More …
Altenbern, Doug Founder of NLT Information Services and ENDATA Atkinson, Bill and Andy Hertzfeld Developers of MacPaint Bannister, Dan R. CEO of DynCorp Bauer, Walter [1986] Co-founder of Informatics Bauer, Walter [1995] Co-founder of Informatics Bayles, Richard (Dick), et al. Read More …
As we mentioned, a viable commercial computer timesharing requires a reliable and ubiquitous means to connect many remote users to that computer. Which implies a network. Which implies routing. But what do you do when you’re developing one of the world’s Read More …
As we mentioned previously, the origin of cloud computing was computer timesharing, a service created in the 1970’s. To be viable, commercial computer timesharing requires two technologies: the first is a computer capable of serving many simultaneous users such that Read More …
As I mentioned in a previous post, Fairchild Market Research and Planning (MRP) had elected to write computer applications themselves for 1) association reporting commitments and 2) in-house data analysis and custom reports. There was a MRP department employee who Read More …
Today’s Cloud provides resources, access and data that makes it indispensable. But virtually none of the services that evolved to today’s Cloud existed before computer timesharing came into being and became available to the end user computing population. Computer timesharing? Read More …
“The Cloud” has slightly different meanings for different people and in different contexts. But in most cases it is the term for the rich and powerful environment that provides access to applications, content and data from resources most of us Read More …
The Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection was created under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The SI SIG’s predecessor, the Software History Center, partnered with the Computer History Museum and the Charles Babbage Foundation to administer the grant to Read More …
Our mission to preserve the history of the software industry includes encouraging organizations and individuals who have historical materials in their files to donate those materials to an archival organization where they can be preserved for the future and also Read More …
EEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35 Number 2, April-June 2013 This special issue (part 2 of a series which began with the special issue in October–December 2012) tells the history of how IBM and several new, independent software Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34 Number 4, October-December 2012 This Annals special issue tells the story of how the transformation to RDBMSs began and describes how three companies pioneered the development of relational database management products Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 31 Number 4, October-December 2009 This issue is focused on the products, companies, and people who designed, programmed, and sold mainframe DBMS software products beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. It includes Read More …