• DocumentCode
    1110041
  • Title

    Economic Perspectives on the History of the Computer Time-Sharing Industry, 1965-1985

  • Author

    Campbell-Kelly, M. ; Carcia-Swartz, D.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Warwick, Coventry
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    36
  • Abstract
    The history of the computer time-sharing industry is one of the unwritten chapters in the overall history of computing. In this article, we show that the time-sharing industry constituted a major sector of the computer services industry until the early 1980s, when time-sharing was made obsolescent by the personal computer.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; history; time-sharing systems; computer services industry; computer time-sharing industry history; personal computer; Computer industry; Costs; Heart; History; Industrial economics; Information systems; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Time sharing computer systems; computer networks; computer services; economics; time-sharing computer systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2008.3
  • Filename
    4475835
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1110041