California Software Products
California Software Products Inc. (CSPI) was a software company based in California, USA and originally founded in 1975 as a mainframe programming consultancy. In the early 80's it struck a deal with IBM to create a DOS compiler for the RGP II programming language used on midrange IBM systems, this resulted in the IBM DOS RPG II package, however as that package sold rather slowly IBM decided not to extend the deal and in turn CSPI decided to extend the package into an environment that emulated the System/36 RPG environment called Baby/36 that allowed users to either compile for DOS or to use the package as a runtime environment for S/36 programs on the PC.
The company continued to market other software that targeted the midrange developer market during the next decade but went into bankruptcy protection in 1997, and a new company called "California Software Corporation" was incorporated which bought the CSPI business, they continued developing the midrange software for a while but over time focused more on software services and later changed their name to "Infinite Corporation".
Known products
- Baby/GUI - 1999 - GUI based development system for IBM midrange systems.
- Baby/36 - System/36 emulator/development system.
- Baby/38 - 1989 - System/38 emulator/development system.
- Baby/400 - AS/400 emulator/development system.
Known Personnel
- Bruce Acacio (CEO)
- Carol Conway (Chief Financial Officer)
- R. Dean Moore (Co-founder, Director of Development)
- Thomas Hoyt (Director Sales)