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
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;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2008.3
