Title
Rego, Alfredo oral history
Catalog Number
102654042
Type
Document
Description
This unusually detailed interview covers Alfredo Rego from his childhood in Guatemala to his coming to the U.S. to get a degree at the University of Texas. It then explores his technical programming work, first in Guatemala and then in the U.S. focused on the use of HP minicomputers and on the use of IMAGE, an HP database management system. He describes the formation of Adager with Rene Woc and the ongoing development and use of the Adager software system to enable much more efficient use of IMAGE to provide database structure independence for applications. Along the way, Alfredo discusses a wide range of personal experiences including skiing in the Olympics, home schooling his children and now analyzing the mechanics of skiing in hard packed or icy surfaces. The one constant seems to be his creative problem solving skills and his willingness to approach anyone and ask for their help in learning something new.
Date
2008-06-06
Contributor
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Grad, Burton, Interviewer
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Hamilton, Denni7s, Editor
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Rego, Alfredo, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
47 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Rego, Alfredo; Adager; Codd, Ted; Date, Chris; Francisco Marroquín University; Hewlett Packard (HP); HP 3000; image; INTEREX; iPhone; Little, Robert; Suger, Eduardo; University of San Carlos; University of Texas; White, Fred; Woc, Rene
Collection Title
Oral history collection
Credit
Software History Center
