Comment by whynotmaybe
3 hours ago
Don't know about 30 years ago but 25 years ago in a small shop, the code was on a network share, on the production server.
And whenever a code file was locked on the server, the Devs went into the server room (aka the break room with a computer) and rebooted the server. The production server that was used by 30+ employees.
Right: I don't have direct experience, but from what I recall reading it was only over the Subversion era that it really became strikingly abnormal for a professional software team to use no VC software at all. When there was software it could be ... exotic. The FOSS culture's pre-SVN norm of "CVS everywhere" put it notably ahead of others.