[cynwoody]

There was a transition in the early eighties. The cohort of people doing software and teaching software changed. It was engineers and accountant-types. It switched to liberal arts types as the field opened up.

The transition predated the eighties, at least among the significant innovators. Remember What the Dormouse Said.

[bvw]

The initial explosion I mentioned was east coast, not west. Univac, Burroughs, RCA, IBM, Sperry, etc, etc. All the big shops were east coast.

[bvw]

The significance of Silicon Valley is overstated. East coast had Commodore, Rockwell, Carnegie Mellon. The west coast had some neat stuff, true, but near every thing of size happened more and earlier east coast.