• DocumentCode
    1372506
  • Title

    How Data Got its Base: Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 1960s

  • Author

    Haigh, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    6
  • Lastpage
    25
  • Abstract
    Generalized report generation and file maintenance programs were widely used in the 1950s, standardized by the Share user group with 9PAC and Surge. By the 1960s the first recognizable DBMS systems, such IMS and IDS, had evolved to address the challenges of disk drives and MIS projects. Finally, in the late 1960s Codasyl´s Data Base Task Group formulated the DBMS concept itself.
  • Keywords
    database management systems; information storage; DBMS systems; file maintenance programs; generalized report generation; information storage software; Application software; Data processing; Database systems; History; Information retrieval; Intrusion detection; Management information systems; Software tools; Spatial databases; Surges; 9PAC; Codasyl; DBTG; IDS; IMS; Share; Surge; and file maintenance; data processing; database management system (DBMS); report generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2009.123
  • Filename
    5370776