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Table of Contents

  1. From the Editor’s Desk
  2. Jeffrey R. Yost
  3. p. 2
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Features

  1. History of Database Management Systems
  2. Burton Grad, Thomas J. Bergin
  3. pp. 3-5
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  1. How Data Got its Base: Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 1960s
  2. Thomas Haigh
  3. pp. 6-25
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  1. The Commercialization of Database Management Systems, 1969–1983
  2. Thomas J. Bergin, Thomas Haigh
  3. pp. 26-41
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  1. The Origin of the Integrated Data Store (IDS): The First Direct-Access DBMS
  2. Charles W. Bachman
  3. pp. 42-54
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  1. Cincom Systems’ Total
  2. Thomas M. Nies
  3. pp. 55-61
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  1. IMS @ Conception
  2. Robert L. Patrick
  3. pp. 62-65
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  1. The Information Management System (IMS) Program Product
  2. William C. McGee
  3. pp. 66-75
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  1. System 2000: The MRI Systems Corporation
  2. Robert L. Brueck
  3. pp. 76-86
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  1. The History of Datacom/DB
  2. Orrin Stevens Jr.
  3. pp. 87-91
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  1. Adabas: Software AG of North America
  2. John Norris Maguire
  3. pp. 92-99
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  1. History of The CA IDMS Database Management System
  2. Judith M. Kruntorad
  3. pp. 100-106
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  1. Events and Sightings
  2. Chigusa Kita
  3. pp. 107-109
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Anecdotes

  1. The Beginnings of TECO
  2. Dan Murphy
  3. pp. 110-115
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Reviews

  1. Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 (review)
  2. James W. Cortada
  3. p. 116
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  1. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (review)
  2. Marie Hicks
  3. pp. 116-117
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Think Piece

  1. On the Absence of Obsolescence
  2. Scott M. Campbell
  3. pp. 120-119
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