Article ID: CBB488099261

Preserving the History of the Software Industry (2020)

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The following three anecdotes describe the journey and methods of Burt Grad and Luanne Johnson in collecting software business history. Burt Grad and Luanne Johnson were from industry and were not academically trained historians, but they saw software companies coming and then disappearing with their histories being lost. Thus, they decided to do something about it. The story they tell is extraordinary—an example of how a couple of individuals on a mission can begin a project, get advice and involvement from other people and institutions, and over time build a sustainably entity that is still growing and collecting computing history 16 years later.

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Authors & Contributors
Grad, Burton
Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo
Donzé, Pierre-Yves
Taplin, Jonathan
Con Diaz, Gerardo
Kurosawa, Takafumi
Concepts
Software
Computers and computing
Libraries and archives
Business history
Internet
Computer industry
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Mauritius
Americas
Japan
India
Institutions
Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration
Facebook (firm)
Google (firm)
Intel Corporation (firm)
Smithsonian Institution
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