Timesharing and Remote Processing Services Meeting Session #2: Formation of TS/RPS Companies
<p>The participants described the business opportunities seen by a number of entrepreneurs as a result of the development of technological capabilities for timesharing and remote processing services and the companies that were started to exploit these new computing paradigms. Each of the pioneers described how their company was formed and their initial business and technology vision. Topics covered include: • The technology that they started with • The markets they expected to serve • The founders and key business and technical participants • The platforms they selected and why • Where the initial financing came from • Their most serious obstacles and how were they overcome The timeline for when each company represented was formed and early key events was constructed including filling in information for those significant companies not represented at the meeting.</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2009-06-02 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702884
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Mike Humphries (Participant)
Frank Belvin (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Paul McJones (Participant)
Ann Hardy (Participant)
Dave Schmidt (Participant)
Dick Bayles (Participant)
Nicholas Rawlings (Participant)
Rick Crandall (Participant)
Kenneth Ross (Participant)
Chris McDonald (Historian)
Edward LaHay (Participant)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Brook, Chris (Participant)
Myers, Gary (Participant)
Stein, Jeffery (Participant)
Mike Wyman (Participant)
Dick Lowenstein (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5386.2009
- Subject
- On-Line Business Systems, Tymshare, Interactive Data Corporation, Ross Systems, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), CDC 6600 (Computer), Control Data Corporation (CDC), Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Scientific Data Systems (SDS), SDS 940 (Computer), National CSS, Service Bureau Corporation (SBC), Comshare, ADAPSO, Keydata, Timesharing
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection