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Oral Histories
The Software History Center, in conjunction with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and the Charles Babbage Institute conducted an Oral History project in May 2002 related to SHC's ADAPSO Reunion meeting which was held in Washington, DC. Thirteen interviews were conducted at that meeting by selected computer historians. All of these interviews have been transcribed and, after limited editing for clarity and accuracy, have been posted on the Charles Babbage Institute website. The people interviewed were all key players in the creation and evolution of the mainframe computer software and services industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Abstracts of each of these transcripts are listed below with the names of the interviewees and interviewers. The full transcripts can be accessed by clicking on the proper location in the abstract.
These abstracts are reproduced with permission of the Charles Babbage Institute.
| Pioneer |
Historian |
| Coleman, Bruce |
William Aspray |
| Crandall, Richard |
Paul Ceruzzi |
| Durbin, Gary |
Philip L. Frana |
| Goetz, Martin A. |
Jeffrey R. Yost |
| Goldstein, Bernard |
David Allison |
| Keane, John F. |
Martin Campbell-Kelly |
| Keet, Ernest E. (Lee) |
Philip L. Frana |
| Lautenberg, Frank |
Paul Ceruzzi |
| Maguire, John |
William Aspray |
| Piscopo, Joseph A. |
Thomas Haigh |
| Schoenberg, Lawrence J. |
Martin Campbell-Kelly |
| Weissman, Robert |
Paul Ceruzzi |
| Welke, Lawrence |
Thomas Haigh |
In May and November of 2004 the Software History Center conducted conferences on PC Software and conducted a number of other oral history interviews of attendees at these conferences. We will shortly provide a list of these interviews and post their abstracts so that you can access the full transcripts. Some of these are or will be on the Charles Babbage Institute website while others are or will be on the Computer History Museum website.
In February 2006 what is now the Software Industry SIG conducted a workshop for founders of professional services companies in the 1950s through the 1970s. These transcripts have now been edited and along with the edited transcript of the workshop itself are now posted on the Computer History Museum website (see Collections and then Oral Histories Program). The interviews are of Werner Frank, Jay Goldberg, Barry Goldsmith and Robert Patrick.
Oral histories of a number of prominent software executives were included in the software company collections developed under the auspices of the IT Corporate Histories Project. The transcripts of these oral histories are, or soon will be, posted on the Computer History Museum website (see Collections and then Oral Histories Program). The interviews are of:
Tom O’Rourke (Tymshare)
Dave Schmidt (Tymshare)
LaRoy Tymes (Tymshare)
Lynn Sanden (Tymshare)
Warner Sinback (GEISCO)
Ken Ross (Ross Systems)
Richard Bayles, Judd Boykin, Harold Feinleib, Nick Pisarro and Nick Rawlings (NCSS)
Alan Rievman (NCSS)
Gary Morgenthaler (Ingres)
Roger Sippl (Informix)
Robert MacDonald (Informix)
John Warnock and Charles Geschke (Adobe)
Paul Brainerd (Aldus)
Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson (Apple)
Additional interviews have been and will be conducted and will be listed here and posted on the Computer History Museum website as they are transcribed and edited.
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