Object Details
- Description
- This object number covers Minitab mathematical software on three 5.25 inch diskettes, as well as a spiral-bound manual.
- According to Ken Falkenback, a Minitab executive, In 1972, three faculaty in the statistics department at Pennsylvania State Unviersity introduced statistical software for student (rather tha professional) use. The faculty were Barbara F. Ryan (born about 1943), her husband Thomas A. Ryan, Jr. (1940-2017), and Brian L. Joiner. Barbara Ryan would become President and Chief Executive Officer of Minitab, Inc. The program was modeled after OMNITAB, more complex software developed by the National Bureau of Standards. The private firm Minitab, Inc. was formed in July of 1983 and moved off the Penn State campus in 1985. It was quickly adopted for use on microcomputers, with both CP/M and DOS versions. This is a slightly less powerful version of the program, sold as the "Student Edition." The discs were copyrighted in 1988 and the accompanying manual in 1989. The package sold for under $50.00 This example was used at Amherst College.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
- Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company
- Date made
- 1989
- Credit Line
- Amherst College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Measurements
- overall: 23.6 cm x 20.5 cm x 2 cm; 9 5/16 in x 8 1/16 in x 13/16 in
- Object Name
- Software
