ITCHP (Information Technology Corporate Histories Project) report by industry sector : time-sharing
Time-sharing is a technique which provides many users simultaneous access to a central computer through remote terminals so that each of them appears to have access to the machine on a full-time basis. The companies included in this project are representative of those companies which were founded during the period of 1964 through 1980 that offered time-sharing services. They used mainframe computers to provide these services and usually offered their customers access to software applications as well as billable cycles of machine time. The time-sharing companies offered customers remote access to powerful computers over communications networks so they could run their applications themselves using their own software or that provided by the time-sharing service provider. This differentiates them from remote processing services companies such as EDS or ADP where the service provider ran the job for the customer. Related Companies: Comshare General Electric Information Services (GEIS) National CSS Ross Systems Tymnet - post Tymshare Tymshare
Item Details
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102746517
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- Extent
- 345 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6575.2013
- Archive collection
- Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection