[SIGCIS-Members] Looking for earliest mainframe contracts and computer contracts archive

[thomas.haigh at gmail.com]

You would also find a lot of discussion of contracts for software and services in the ADPASO archives at CBI. https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/286

 

ADAPSO was a trade organization which began with service bureaus and diversified into software. Helping its member companies produce contracts was a significant focus of its operations, and it produced model contracts of various kinds for their use, eventually leading to a Contracts Reference Directory. 

 

Many years ago I worked with these papers to produce a short series on its history in IEEE Annals.

 

"ADAPSO and the Service Bureau Industry, 1961-1968," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 78-85.  https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ADAPSOprt1Article.pdf

 

"ADAPSO, Timesharing Firms and Software Companies, 1968-1975," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:1 (January-March 2005): 67-73. https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ADAPSOprt2.pdf

 

"ADAPSO, Regulated Competition, and Professional Services: 1976-1986" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:2 (April-June 2005): 89-93. https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ADAPSOprt3Article.pdf

 

Best wishes,


Tom

 

Thomas Haigh

Professor & Chair, UWM History Department

Chair, IEEE Computer Society History Committee

Director, ACM History Committee Turing Awards Project

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Dear SIGCIS members

 

I was wondering if someone has any mainframe and/or supercomputer contracts? or if there is an archive of computer contracts? jurisdictions and time periods, no bar although the older the better. The query is fairly broad so time share, leases, procurement contracts across contexts are very welcome :) I wish to look at the evolution of vendor restrictions (if any, although i think there would be ?)

 

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Anushka

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University of Amsterdam 

 

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