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Early planning software

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Peter Holroyd
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As anybody got information on the early (1960's) planning software, programming language used and machines used to run them and main players?

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Patrick Weaver
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A brief history of the Micro Planner software (UK) can be found at: https://mosaicprojects.com.au/Company_People_MPI.php

They had software on the Apple II (1978)  IBM PCs were early 1980s with 'windows' being released in 1984. 

Other tools from the UK in the same time period included Plantrack and Hornet. USA: InstaPlan, Microsoft Project, the original Pertmaster (maybe UK), Timeline and literally dozens of others.

Primavera was founded in May 1983 by: Dick Faris, Joel Koppelman and Les Seskin 

 

Peter Holroyd
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Patrick,

a quick look at the literature 

Programmimg Languages between 1950 and 1970

1957 Fortran

1958 Algol

1959 Cobol

1964 Basic

1970 Pascal

Main frame computers

1960 PDP - 1 DEC

1961 IBM 7000 series start

1961 IBM 1400 series start

But who programmed what PC Applications on which machines?

Peter

Patrick Weaver
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Hi Peter,

Some useful resources are at: https://mosaicprojects.com.au/PMKI-ZSY-020.php

There would be some merit in tabulating the software and systems, but I'm not sure how vaiable this is - happy to contribute. 

Santosh Bhat
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Raph Dua and Pat Weaver would be good to contact for information about this.