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Text

Title

Learn, Dale oral history

Contributor

Johnson, Luanne, Interviewer; Editor

Learn, Dale, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2000-09-05

Place of Publication

Westport, Conn.

Description

Dale Learn describes the founding of InSci (Information Science, Inc.) in 1965 as a software company specializing in personnel systems. He describes the positive relationship between IBM and the founders of InSci who were former IBM employees and how IBM assisted and supported their efforts as a start-up. He talks about how they began to sell their personnel system as a package product in addition to developing large customized personnel systems and how they subsequently added payroll to their product line and shifted the company's focus. He describes the difficulties in obtaining the initial financing to start the company and the problems caused by the changing ownership over the years until the company was sold to Computer Associates in the mid-1980s.

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Subject

Learn, Dale; InSci; Information Science, Inc. (InSci); human resource system software; Berry, Bill; Morgan, Phil; Iverson, Dick; Yu, Anne; ADAPSO; Western Union; McFall, Russ; McKee, Jim; Mitchell, Ed; Hight, Jack

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102702267