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Building on these early successes with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other early suppliers of business software solutions, corporate consumers demanded business software to replace the old-fashioned drafting board.

CAD-CAM software ( or computer-aided drafting for computer-aided manufacturing ) arrived in the early 1980s.

Also, project management software was so valued in the early 1980s that it might cost as much as $ 500, 000 per copy ( although such software typically had far fewer capabilities than modern project management software such as Microsoft Project, which one might purchase today for under $ 500 per copy.