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Founded | 1959 |
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Founder | Martin Goetz, Sherman Blumenthal, Ellwood Kauffman, Dave McFadden, Bernard Riskin, Robert Wickenden, and Stephen Wright |
Defunct | 1986 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | Ameritech |
Headquarters | , |
Services | independent contract programming |
Applied Data Research, Inc. (ADR), was a large software vendor from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. ADR is often described as "the first independent software vendor".[1]
Founded in 1959, ADR was originally a contract development company. ADR eventually built a series of its own products. ADR's widely used major packages included: Autoflow for automatic flowcharting, which is often cited as one of the first commercial software applications;[2] Roscoe, a remote job submission environment; MetaCOBOL, an extensible macro processor for the COBOL language; and The Librarian, for source-code management.
The company's original office was in a small office building along U.S. Route 206 in Princeton Township, New Jersey.[3] Later during the 1960s, they were part of a data center located on Route 206 across from Princeton Airport. The center was destroyed by fire in 1969 when a light plane crashed into it on approach to the airport, but there were no serious injuries among either the pilot or the workers in the building.[4] In 1980, the company moved to a facility further along Route 206, that was just north of Princeton in Montgomery Township, New Jersey.[5]
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