Bill Kent
Bill Kent combined timeless abstract ideas about data modeling with practical advice, and always with a sense of humor.
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technology, past
Selling IBM mainframes in 1979—the colors! The outfits!
A machine with half a meg of memory cost $62,500... but it supported multiple concurrent users.
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25 years of database history (starting in 1955)
A 1981 article in IBM's Journal of Research and Development gave me a much better perspective on how database systems got where they are.
A 1981 article in IBM’s Journal of Research and Development gave me a much better perspective on how database systems got where they are. The abstract of W.C. McGee’s article Data Base Technology tells us that “The evolution of data base technology over the past twenty-five years is surveyed, and major IBM contributions to this technology are identified and briefly noted.” It put a lot of disjointed facts that I knew in perspective, showing how one thing led to another.…
