Editing IBM 709/90 9PAC

'''9PAC''' is a common abbreviation for 709 PACkage. It was a [[report generator]] developed in 1959 for the [[IBM 709]] and used on its successor, the [[IBM 7090]]. It was developed by [[SHARE (computing)|SHARE]], an early IBM users' group, and based on the File Maintenance and Report Generator System developed by [[General Electric]] for the [[IBM 702]], led by Harry Tellier.<ref>{{Cite book |date= September 25–26, 2004 |pages= 2 |doi= 10.1145/1141880.1141882 |isbn= 978-1-4503-1771-9 |last1= Haigh |first1= Thomas |last2= Bachman |first2= Charles W. |title= ACM Oral History interviews |chapter= Charles W. Bachman interview |doi-access= free }}</ref>
[[Charles Bachman]] worked on its design in 1957, and although his company's order for the 709 was cancelled, he later included some of its general concepts into the more generalized idea of [[navigational database]]s.
Engineers at companies such as Union Carbide, Northwest Power Company, Philips Petroleum, Dow Chemical, and Chrysler cooperated on the project.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Oral-History:Charles Bachman |work= IEEE Oral History Network |date= April 9, 2011 |author= Andrew L. Russell  |url= http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Charles_Bachman |access-date= September 3, 2013 }}</ref>

==Further reading==
* [[Jean E. Sammet]] 1969, p.&nbsp;314. "IBM 7090 Prog Sys, SHARE 7090 9PAC Part I: Intro and Gen Princs", IBM J28-6166, White Plains, 1961.

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