Title:
Oral History of Peter Harris

Date:
2004-11-19

Pages:
29 p.

Interviewer:
Haigh, Thomas; interviewer and editor
Harris, Peter; interviewee
Pantages, Angie; editor

Abstract:
Peter Harris describes his educational background and his early work using computers at United Aircraft. He started a service bureau company to convert the Connecticut Motor Vehicle Department addressograph plates to punch cards and then sold this business to C-E-I-R. He started a new service bureau company in San Francisco and created the ADPAC application development system which he first sold as a product. Later, he used ADPAC for his programming contract services which could generate operating programs or could be converted into COBOL programs. He built a product which would take existing COBOL programs and produce structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance. This led to substantial Y2K work in the late 1990s. He finally describes a new product which converts the old US UPC codes to the new international standard UPC codes.

Keywords:
Harris, Peter
Nutt, Roy
United Aircraft
FORTRAN
Data Tech
Connecticut Motor Vehicle Department
Vineberg, Larry
C-E-I-R
Caneperry, Ed
ADPAC
COBOL
Computer Sciences Corporation
CSC
ComputerWorld
Y2K
SS-80

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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