Artifact Details

Title

Timesharing and Remote Processing Services meeting session #11 : the demise and legacy of TS/RPS

Catalog Number

102702893

Type

Document

Description

Pioneers of the Timesharing and Remote Processing Services industries in the 1960s and 1970s discuss why it disappeared and what replaced it. They talk about the changes in technology, the evolution of business models, and the change in customers. They discuss the legacy of timesharing and its influence on email, e-commerce, networking, and now the ubiquitous individual access to computing services and data.

Date

2009-06-03

Contributor

Bayles, Dick, Participant
Belvin, Frank, Participant
Brook, Chris, Participant
Grad, Burt, Moderator
Haigh, Thomas, Participant
Hardy, Ann, Particpant
Hardy, Norm, Participant
Humphries, Mike, Participant
Jerger, Doug, Participant
Johnson, Luanne, Participant
Lowenstein, Dick, Participant
McDonald, Chris, Participant
Rawlings, Nicholas, Participant
Shustek, Len, Editor
Stein, Jeffery, Participant
Wyman, Mike, Participant

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

31 p.

Format

PDF

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Transcription

Subject

CompuServe; Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP); Computer Protocol (CP); email; General Electric Information Services (GEIS); Interactive Data Corporation (IDC); Internet; National CSS; PROFS; Remote Processing Services Section; SABRE; timesharing; Tymnet; Tymshare; VM (Virtual Machine)

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X5386.2009