Editing Prime Computer (section)

==Founders==
The company was started by seven<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipment/prime-computer-se50m
|title=PR1ME Computer 9650 - RI Computer Museum  |website=RIcomputerMuseum.com}}</ref> founders, some of whom worked on the [[Multics]] project at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]].
[[Image:Primecpu.png|thumb|right|Part of the [[CPU]] board of a Prime [[minicomputer]] ]]
* Robert Baron (president)
* Sidney Halligan (VP Sales)
* James Campbell (Director of Marketing)
* Joseph Cashen (VP Hardware Engineering)
* Robert Berkowitz (VP Manufacturing)
* [[William Poduska]] (VP Software Engineering)<ref name=HistBRO>{{cite web
|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/companies.php?alpha=m-p&company=com-42bc21a007485
|title=Computer History Museum - Prime Computer, Inc.  |website=ComputerHistory.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/331/000168824 |title=Profile: John W. Podusko}}</ref>
* John Carter (Director of Human Resources)

The company started with the motto ''"Software First"''.

Poduska left in 1981, to start [[Apollo Computer]].<ref name=Chan05>Alfred Dupont Chandler, Takashi Hikino, Andrew Von Nordenflycht ''Inventing the electronic century: the epic story of the consumer electronics and computer industries '', Harvard University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|0-674-01805-2}}, pages 104,108,118,148,149.</ref> His successor was 27-year IBM executive [[Joe M. Henson]], although Prime's president, [[Kenneth G. Fisher]], had briefly been the interim top executive.<ref name=NYT.JoeIBM/>