A personal recollection of software's early days (1960-1979): part 1
Ernest E. Keet · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2004
The author, a participant in packaged software's early days, worked with IBM up through the System/360 launch and then with Turnkey Systems, an early provider of packaged software. This article traces the author's background from graduate school through the Turnkey Systems sale to National CSS in 1979 and subsequently to Dun & Bradstreet.