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Creating the Software Industry: Recollections of Software Company Founders of the 1960s
January-March 2002 (vol. 24 no. 1)
pp. 14-42
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Luanne Johnson, "Creating the Software Industry: Recollections of Software Company Founders of the 1960s," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 14-42, January-March, 2002.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/85.988576,
author = {Luanne Johnson},
title = {Creating the Software Industry: Recollections of Software Company Founders of the 1960s},
journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
volume = {24},
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issn = {1058-6180},
year = {2002},
pages = {14-42},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/85.988576},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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In the 1960s, customers either obtained software free from their hardware vendors or wrote their own, specialized software. The idea that packaged software might be an alternative to meet customers' requirements met with considerable market resistance. The Software History Center, dedicated to preserving the history of companies launched in this environment, presents this collection of reminiscences from 1960s' software entrepreneurs.

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5. Roy Nutt one of the members of the team that developed Fortran, was loaned to the IBM team by United Aircraft.

Citation:
Luanne Johnson, "Creating the Software Industry: Recollections of Software Company Founders of the 1960s," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 14-42, Jan.-Mar. 2002, doi:10.1109/85.988576
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