In the case of Software development, this moment is generally agreed to be the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge.

In early 1990, Aldus bought Silicon Beach Software, acquiring a number of consumer titles for the Macintosh, including SuperPaint, Digital Darkroom, SuperCard, Super3D, and Personal Press ( later renamed Adobe Home Publisher ).

Microsoft also produced a version of Personal Web Server for the Macintosh based on code acquired in its acquisition of ResNova Software in November 1996.

* Personal Software Process, a process to improve programming quality

* Gaia Software ( Personal Media personal productivity applications )

Another early use of the term Invisible Web was by Bruce Mount and Matthew B. Koll of Personal Library Software, in a description of the @ 1 deep Web tool found in a December 1996 press release.

* Kerio Personal Firewall, a personal firewall-acquired by Sunbelt Software on December 21, 2005

On December 1, 2005 Kerio announced that Kerio Personal Firewall ( v4 ) was to be acquired by Sunbelt Software, the acquisition was completed December 21, 2005 and soon after the product was renamed to Sunbelt Personal Firewall.

The program resulted in the development of the Capability Maturity Model, published in 1989 in Humphrey's " Managing the Software Process " and inspired the later development of the Personal Software Process ( PSP ) and the Team Software Process ( TSP ).

* Personal Software Process ( PSP )

In the spring of 1981, Personal Software was cash-flush from the ever-increasing sales of VisiCalc, and the corporate directors sat down and planned out their future directions.

They demonstrated a version of Smalltalk running on the TRS-80, a seriously underpowered machine, and the Personal Software people were extremely impressed.

In early 1982 Personal Software changed their name to VisiCorp, and was betting much of the future success of the company on Visi On.

Mansfield Software created the first non-IBM implementation of REXX ( Personal REXX ) in 1985.

Its inaugural editorial team included editor Chris Anderson, Software Editor Bob Wade, freelance writer Steve Cooke ( who joined the staff from the recently-folded Personal Computer Games ), and reviewers Gary Penn and Julian Rignall, who won their jobs after having placed as finalists at a video game competition.

The Personal Software Process ( PSP ) is a structured software development process that is intended to help software engineers understand and improve their performance, by using a " disciplined, data-driven procedure ".

" Personal Software Process " and " PSP " are registered service marks of the Carnegie Mellon University.

*" Using a defined and measured Personal Software Process " by Watts S. Humphrey, published in IEEE Software, May 1996, pages 77 – 88.

* " The Personal Software Process ( PSP ) Body of Knowledge " article from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon

: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989.

A revised version of his lectures were later published as Personal Knowledge ( 1958 ).

* The Phoenix Factor: Surviving and Growing Through Personal Crisis ( 1985 ) ( later published as Up From the Ashes )-With Karl A. Slaikeu

He gave an interview for The Daily Telegraph ( published on 5 January 1898 as ' Personal Recollections of Arthur H. Hallam ').

published his memoirs McLean Hospital: A Personal Memoir about his career-spanning time at McLean, from Residency to Psychiatrist-in-Chief.

In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A l ' ombre de moi-meme (" In My Own Shadow ", published in English as Close Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve ); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and Dancer in the Dark.

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery ( Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account ), commonly referred to as David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850.

In 1975 the Texas A & M University Press published an English translation of the book, called With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution.

In 1996, Gene Wilder and Registry founder Steven Piver, one of Radner's medical consultants, published Gilda's Disease: Sharing Personal Experiences and a Medical Perspective on Ovarian Cancer.

Finance in Spanish in his weekly very popular weekly “ Conexión Dinero ” series and blogs, Serbia is also a Personal Financial Editor for the " Money Matters " section of " Siempre Mujer " magazine, published by Meredith Corporation.

* Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35, 000 published Greek names.

Disk operation system ANDOS ( Article with description of ANDOS v2. 30 $ by its creator, published in a magazine " Personal computer BK-0010-BK-0011M ")

* Personal Journal – published Tuesday through Thursday ; covers personal investments, careers and cultural pursuits ( the section was introduced April 9, 2002 )

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a book by Thomas Szasz first published in 1961.

In 1868, he published his Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, which came to be regarded as one of the classics of its field.

* Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA ; The Norton Critical Edition, which was published in 1980, edited by Gunther S. Stent: ISBN 0-393-01245-X.

* Watson, James D., The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, Atheneum, 1980, ISBN 0-689-70602-2 ( first published in 1968 )

Those earlier memoirs were edited and published posthumously in 1989 as Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander.

in 2000, and in 2003 Martine McCutcheon: Behind the Scenes – A Personal Diary, was published by Harper Collins.

By 1955. the Decatur study was published as part of Elihu Katz and Lazarsfeld ’ s book Personal Influence.

The title jacket of " The Nature of Personal Reality, A Seth Book " published in 1994 ( Amber-Allen / New World Library ) contains testimonials from some of the most notable thinkers and writers within the movement.

In 1906 Bram Stoker ( the author of Dracula ), published a two volume biography about Henry Irving called Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving.