Computer History Museum

Hewlett Packard software workshop : session two : starting HP software businesses

Representatives of many HP software companies and representatives from HP discuss a wide range of subjects related to founding and funding their companies. They discuss the various systems and applications programs that they designed and built. They talk about why they chose to use HP computers and they relationships with HP. There is some discussion of the size of the companies and the effectiveness of remaining small. And there was an extensive discussion about INTEREX which became both a technological interchange as well as a marketing vehicle for the software companies. There are also comments about the HP hardware and the HP systems software and porting some of the HP products to other platforms.

Item Details

Date
2008-06-05 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702568
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Harper Thorpe (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Douglas Jerger (Participant)
Michael Mahoney (Historian)
Stan Sieler (Participant)
Martin Gorfinkel (Participant)
Lee Keet (Editor)
Grace Gentry (Participant)
Glenn Bugos (Historian)
Bruce Ray (Participant)
Steve Dennis (Participant)
Douglas J. Mecham (Participant)
Richard Bergquist (Participant)
Charles H. House (Participant)
Alfredo Rego (Participant)
Martin Browne (Participant)
Steve Cooper (Participant)
Jack Damm (Participant)
Bob Green (Participant)
Mark Klein (Participant)
Sandy Kurtzig (Participant)
Phil Sakakihara (Participant)
Fred White (Participant)
Rene Woc (Participant)
Michael Adamson (Participant)
Gerard Alberts (Historian)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
40 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X4698.2008
Subject
VAX/VMS, Abacus, HP 3000, Adager, Gentry Incorporated
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection