Editing CompuServe (section)

=== Acquisitions ===
CompuServe made a number of acquisitions in its history, both before and after being acquired by H&R Block:

* Early 1970s {{En dash}} Alpha Systems of Dallas, Texas, a small regional timesharing company which was also based on PDP-10 technology.  It was operated as a standalone company for a brief time, but later their PDP-10 was moved to CompuServe's Columbus, Ohio, datacenter and the Dallas operation ended.
* ~1986 {{En dash}} Software House {{En dash}} developer of System 1022, a relational database system.
* ~1986 {{En dash}} Collier-Jackson {{En dash}} developer of human resource management products.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forms software maker has worldly ambitions |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/1997/11/17/story7.html |access-date=August 13, 2019 |website=The Business Journals}}</ref>
* 1988 {{En dash}} Access Technology {{En dash}} developer of the 20/20 spreadsheet program.<ref>"Access Technology is the newest kid on the Block," ''Computerworld'', August 29, 1988, p2</ref>
* 1995 {{En dash}} Spry, Inc. {{En dash}} developer of [[IBox|Internet in a Box]], the first consumer internet suite.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Compuserve to Buy Spry, an Internet Company |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/14/business/compuserve-to-buy-spry-an-internet-company.html |access-date=December 20, 2020 |website=The New York Times|date=March 14, 1995 |last1=Fisher |first1=Lawrence M. }}</ref>