Before the arrival and popularity of the PC, the kind of companies, that might have an early crude version of contact management software, were big. They usually had hugely expensive computer systems like mainframes and minis. Even with the arrival of the PC software for dealing with an organization’s contacts, took quite some time to [...]

If you were a very large company in the nineteen seventies you might have invested in The computer system. In those days this usually meant either a minicomputer or mainframe. You might have built into that bespoke software system some facilities of the function of contact management software. It would be limited, cumbersome and very [...]