Researching the history of software from the 1960s

James W. Cortada

doi:10.1109/85.988584

Researching the history of software from the 1960s

James W. Cortada

Charles Babbage Institute

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The literature on software history is quite limited. In addition to showing why such a situation exists, this paper identifies study resources, and explains some of the issues concerning archival holdings. It also suggests an initial research agenda, arguing that the 1960s were seminal for the history of software as a whole.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	72-79
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/85.988584
State	Published - Jan 2002

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