Name: Luanne James Johnson

Born: Unknown

  • She founded Argonaut Information Systems to sell payroll and accounts payable software in 1971.

Significant publications

  • A View From the 1960s: How the Software Industry Began (1998).

Quotes

“The conventional wisdom in the computer industry in the 1960s was that one could not make any money selling software-it was either given away free by the computer manufacturers or written specifically and uniquely for each computer installation.”