Computer History Museum

The software history shop - "One for the history books" workshop

On September 22 and 23, 2000, The Charles Babbage Institute sponsored a conference in Palo Alto, CA, on the impact of IBM’s decision in 1969 to unbundle the price of software from the price of hardware on the emergence of companies selling software as a product. Many of the attendees at the conference were people who had founded software companies in the 1960s and early 1970s, so The Software History Center decided to take advantage of the congregation of so many people who had participated in the early software industry to organize a workshop for the following day. The purpose of the workshop was to ask people to recollect their experiences in founding their companies and especially to discuss factors other than unbundling which affected the early growth of their companies. Conference reporters were on hand to transcribe the conversations that took place.

Item Details

Date
2000-09-24 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102740020
Organization
The Software History Center (Publisher)
People
Norma Goetz (Participant)
Martin Campbell-Kelly (Participant)
George Glaser (Participant)
Burt Grad (Participant)
Peter Harris (Participant)
Karol Hines (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Moderator)
Jeffrey Yost (Participant)
Barbara Brizdle (Participant)
Phil Frana (Participant)
Jan Phillips (Participant)
Martin Goetz (Participant)
Joseph Piscopo (Participant)
Lawrence Welke (Participant)
Kenneth Kolence (Participant)
Duane Whitlow (Participant)
Edward LaHay (Participant)
Larry Schoenberg (Participant)
Peter Cunningham (Participant)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Niki Harris (Participant)
Esther Roditti (Participant)
Nissey Welke (Participant)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Gift of Luanne Johnson
Extent
72 p.
Language
English
Acquisition number
X6351.2012
Subject
Charles Babbage Institute, Applied Data Research (ADR), ADPAC, International Computer Programs, Inc. (ICP), Boole & Babbage