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Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

December 13, 2015June 29, 2017 SI SIGLeave a commentCollections

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 …

Materials Collection

December 13, 2015January 20, 2017 SI SIG3 CommentsCollections

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 …

Relational Database Management Systems: The Business Explosion

December 13, 2015 SI SIGLeave a commentAnnals

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 …

Relational Database Management Systems: The Formative Years

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 SI SIGLeave a commentAnnals

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 …

Mainframe Software: Database Management Systems

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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 …

PC Software: Spreadsheets for Everyone

December 13, 2015 SI SIGLeave a commentAnnals

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 29 Number 3, July-September 2007 This issue is the second of special issues of The Annals produced by the Software Industry Special Interest Group on the topic of PC Software.  This issue focused on the Read More …

PC Software: Word Processing for Everyone

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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 28 Number 4, October-December 2006 This issue is focused on the products, companies, and people who produced the early word processing software products.  It includes articles by industry pioneers recording the how these products Read More …

The Start of the Software Products Industry

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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 24 Number 1, January-March, 2002 This special issue of The Annals was produced by The Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Interest Group).  It focused on the software industry in Read More …

Service Bureaus Meeting

December 13, 2015 SI SIGLeave a commentPioneer Meetings

May 10, 2010 New York, NY On May 19, 2010, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting of pioneers from companies that provided processing services including early service bureau companies. The meeting was held at the offices of Read More …

Time-sharing/Remote Processing Services Meeting

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June 2-3, 2009 Mountain View, CA On June 2-3, 2009, the Software Industry Special Industry Group conducted a two-day meeting for pioneers from companies that provided time-sharing and remote processing services. The meeting was held at the Computer History Museum Read More …

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