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 of the PC software industry and record their recollections of the events and people that shaped the industry. Eleven workshops were conducted on various aspects of the PC software industry. These workshops were recorded and the transcripts have been edited and posted on the Computer History Museum’s Oral History website. The workshops are listed below with links to the transcripts.
Attendees:
| Abbate, Janet | Kinlan, Jim |
| Aspray, Bill | Kolowich, Michael |
| Bergin, Tim | Landry, John |
| Brackett, John | Mahoney, Mike |
| Bricklin, Dan | Maples, Mike |
| Bride, Ed | Morgan, Chris |
| Brizdle, Barbara | Rabins, Richard |
| Campbell-Kelly, Martin | Ross, Doug |
| Ceruzzi, Paul | Rubinstein, Seymour |
| Dyer, Ben | Sachs, Jonathon |
| Ensmenger, Nathan | Schachter, Oscar |
| Frankston, Bob | Schoenberg, Larry |
| Fylstra, Dan | Tarter, Jeff |
| Galley, Connie | Toole, John |
| Grad, Burt | Tucker, Scott |
| Grier, David | Virgo, Elizabeth |
| Haigh, Thomas | Wasch, Ken |
| Imlay, John P., Jr. | Welke, Larry |
| Jerger, Doug | Yost, Jeff |
| Johnson, Luanne |
Workshops:
Marketing – Pricing and Packaging
Companies Represented:
ACT, ADAPSO, AGS, Computer Collector Newsletter, DigiNovations, Digital Light and Color, Duns Plus, Fortex, IBM, ICP, InfoCom, Intelligent Systems, KMT Software. Lotus, Mercator, MicroPro, Microsoft, MSA, Peachtree Software, Personal Software, PC Computing Magazine, Slate, Softletter, Softech, Software Arts, Software Garden, Software Magazine, Solomon Software, SPA, Timeslips, tsi, Visicorp