Timesharing and Remote Processing Services Meeting Session #6: Technology: Later Development
<p>Both the products and the means of delivering the services changed dramatically during the 1970s. In this session, the participants discussed the technological changes in computers, networks, and software that enabled the TS/RPS industry to grow significantly during these years. They also discussed the changes in the market that foreshadowed the coming demise of pure timesharing as a viable business. Topics covered include: • What were the new developments in the operating systems and tools which fueled the growth? • What changes were occurring in the marketplace that motivated the companies to expand the kinds of services they were offering? • What was the impact of having high performance/low cost minicomputers available for use? • What was the motivation to develop proprietary network systems? • How large had the companies grown by that time period?</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2009-06-03 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702888
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Kenneth Ross (Participant)
Frank Belvin (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Ann Hardy (Participant)
Dave Schmidt (Participant)
Dick Bayles (Participant)
Nicholas Rawlings (Participant)
Rick Crandall (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Chris McDonald (Historian)
Edward LaHay (Participant)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Brook, Chris (Participant)
Norm Hardy (Participant)
Myers, Gary (Participant)
Stein, Jeffery (Participant)
Mike Wyman (Participant)
Dick Lowenstein (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Co-Chair) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 40 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5386.2009
- Subject
- RAMIS, Interactive Data Corporation, On-Line Business Systems, Tymshare, DynaTax, FOCUS, NOMAD, National CSS, ADP, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), Telenet, Tymnet, United Data Centers, Comshare, Dun & Bradstreet
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection