Artifact Details

Title

Schoenberg, Larry (Lawrence J.) oral history

Catalog Number

102701972

Type

Document

Description

Lawrence J. "Larry" Schoenberg reviews the early days of the software industry including the names of early software products, professional services and processing services companies and the names of many of the founders and influential pioneers. He discusses the effect of IBM's unbundling on professional services companies, software products companies, and user companies that had relied on IBM to provide training to their employees. He discusses the impact of the recession in the early 1970s on the growth of the software industry and projects the impact of future trends on the industry.

Date

1985-12-10

Contributor

Grad, Burt, Editor
Grad, Burt, Interviewer
Johnson, Luanne, Interviewer
Johnson, Luanne, Editor
Schoenberg, Lawrence, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountainside, New Jersey

Extent

33 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Software business history; Schoenberg, Lawrence; Schoenberg, Larry; Advanced Computer Techniques Corp. (ACT); Applied Data Research (ADR); Aries; Automatic Data Processing (ADP); Brandon Applied Systems; Computer Applications (CAI); Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC); Computer Usage Company (CUC); Computing and Software; DATAMATION; Digitek; Informatics; Matrix; Planning Research Corporation; University Computing; C-E-I-R (Corporation for Economic Industrial Research); Cooper, Charlie; Stat Tab; Carroll, Mike Jr.; Analysts International; GUIDE; SHARE; Nutt, Roy; Jones, Fletcher; FACT compiler; Goetz, Marty; Clancy, Ken; Spalding, Warren; Automation Sciences; AGS Computers; Autoflow; National Computer Analysts (NCA); McCracken, Dan; Opler, Ascher; Mark IV; Comress; SCERT; CACI; SIMSCRIPT; Ferguson, Dave; Programmatics; MetaCOBOL; ROSCOE; librarian; MSA; PMI; Lambda; Pansophic; Brandon, Dick; Diebold, John; Friedman, Norman; Luke, John; Alltax; Argonaut Information Systems; SDA; CGA; IBM unbundling; EDS; Computer Associates

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Gift of Luanne Johnson

Lot Number

X5032.2009