Computer History Museum

Learn, Dale oral history

Dale Learn describes the founding of InSci (Information Science, Inc.) in 1965 as a software company specializing in personnel systems. He describes the positive relationship between IBM and the founders of InSci who were former IBM employees and how IBM assisted and supported their efforts as a start-up. He talks about how they began to sell their personnel system as a package product in addition to developing large customized personnel systems and how they subsequently added payroll to their product line and shifted the company's focus. He describes the difficulties in obtaining the initial financing to start the company and the problems caused by the changing ownership over the years until the company was sold to Computer Associates in the mid-1980s.

Item Details

Date
2000-09-05 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702267
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Learn, Dale (Interviewee)
Luanne Johnson (Interviewer)
Category
Transcript
Credit line
Gift of Johnson, Luanne
Place of publication
North America/USA/CT/Westport
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5734.2010
Subject
ADAPSO
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection