User:Ronmagazzu

School Administrative Software - The surge begins in the 1980's and 1990's.
Not long after computers emerged in the business world, large institutions began using them to process information, to schedule students, track grades, tuition, financial aid, and more. These computers were large, expensive, main frames, like the IBM 360 and 370, and typically took up a full room for their existence. Computer environments had to be kept as clean an an operating room in a hospital--this was the protect storage devices such as tape drives and later hard disk drives.

The birth of the micro computer in the 1970's provided the tool for a new group of entrepreneurs: programmers(or young men and women who were curious, earger to learn, or those who had learned this skill at universities (smaller schools and trade schools were not yet offering programs in writing software).