Artifact Details

Description

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.

Date

2008-06-05

Contributor

Adamson, Michael, Participant

Alberts, Gerard, Historian

Bergquist, Richard, Participant

Browne, Martin, Participant

Bugos, Glenn, Historian

Cooper, Steve, Participant

Damm, Jack, Participant

Dennis, Steve, Participant

Gentry, Grace, Participant

Gorfinkel, Martin, Participant

Grad, Burt, Moderator

Green, Bob, Participant

House, Charles H., Participant

Jerger, Douglas, SI SIG Member

Keet, Lee, Editor

Klein, Mark, Participant

Kurtzig, Sandy, Participant

Mahoney, Michael, Historian

Mecham, Douglas J., Participant

Ray, Bruce, Participant

Rego, Alfredo, Participant

Sakakihara, Phil, Participant

Sieler, Stan, Participant

Thorpe, Harper, Participant

White, Fred, Participant

Woc, Rene, Participant

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

40 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Abacus; Adager; Allegro; American Management Systems; ASK Computers; Cognos; Gentry Incorporated; Green, Bob; HP 3000; image; INTEREX; Kurtzig, Sandy; Lark Computing; Palo Alto Group; Quasar; Scroggs, Ross; Smith, Dennis and Gaylord; Urban Software; VAX/VMS; Wild Hare Computing

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X4698.2008