Title
McKinney, Webb oral history
Catalog Number
102654051
Type
Document
Description
Webb McKinney was an executive in Hewlett Packard over many years and involved in various efforts to build software to run on HP instruments, specialized equipment and eventually on minicomputers and personal computers. His recollections illustrate how the decentralized operation of many of the HP products led to multiple developments of both minicomputers and personal computers with conflicting architectures and business models. While these competing technologies would get resolved over time, HP was often late to market and never really focused its computer software on the broad personal usage market. HP wanted to differentiate its hardware platforms through its unique software, but the market migrated to a Microsoft Windows platform and neither the customers nor the software producers were prepared to go a separate route.
Date
2008-06-04
Contributor
Mahoney, Michael, Interviewer
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McKinney, Webb, Interviewee
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Rawlings, Nicholas, Editor
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, USA
Extent
30
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
McKinney, Webb; Apple; CompUSA; Corel; Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); DEC Rainbow; DEC Professional; Ely, Paul; Frankenberg, Bob; Gates, Bill; General Radio; Hackborn, Dick; Hewlett Packard (HP); International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); Kahn, Philippe; Lotus Development Corporation; Micrographics; Microsoft; Norton Desktop for Windows; Olsen, Ken; Open Mail; Phoenix Technologies; Sakakihara, Phil; SDRC (Structural Dynamics Research Corporation); Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI); Time/Data; Vectra; WordPerfect; Yansouni, Cyril; Young, John
Collection Title
Oral history collection
Credit
Software History Center