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Origins of Software Bundling
January-March 2002 (vol. 24 no. 1)
pp. 57-58

The bundling of software and hardware in a single product package predates electronic computers and can be traced back to information-processing pioneer Herman Hollerith in the late 1800s.

1. E.W. Pugh,Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, p. 62.
2. E.W. Pugh,Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, p. 62.
3. G.D. Austrian, Herman Hollerith: Forgotten Giant of Information Processing, Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1982, pp. 5-6.
4. E.W. Pugh,Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, p. 62.
5. n a Ibid., pp. 319-320.

Citation:
Emerson W. Pugh, "Origins of Software Bundling," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 57-58, Jan.-Mar. 2002, doi:10.1109/85.988580
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