Computer History Museum

Schoenberg, Larry (Lawrence J.) oral history

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.

Item Details

Date
1985-12-10 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102701972
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Lawrence Schoenberg (Interviewee)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Luanne Johnson (Interviewer)
Burt Grad (Editor)
Burt Grad (Interviewer)
Category
Transcript
Credit line
Gift of Luanne Johnson
Extent
33 p.
Place of publication
USA/NJ/Mountainside
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5032.2009
Subject
GUIDE, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), MSA, SDA, CGA, Computer Associates, SHARE, Informatics, Mark IV, Applied Data Research (ADR), Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), IBM Unbundling, Software Business History, Autoflow, EDS, CACI, SIMSCRIPT, Librarian, Pansophic
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection