CLOC is a general purpose text analysis package originally offered by the University of Birmingham Computing Centre in the late 1970s, and now avaiable for download. It can generate concordances, collocates and word lists for a text. This tool was developed in Fortran.

WORDS was a text analysis program library for content analysis developed by Howard P. Iker at the University of Rochester. It identified major content themes, and generated word frequencies and collocations, and was sufficiently complex to require a 200-page user manual. This program is no longer available and does not have a web presence.

KLIC (Key Letter in Context) was a program for graphological anaylsis particularly useful to scholars analyzing the language of medieval texts, created by Grace B. Logan of the Waterloo Arts Computing Office. It assisted in determining where different spelllings represent different pronunciations, and when they are variant spellings of the same word.

LEXICO was an interactive system designed to assist lexographers in text analysis. It assisted in storing, editing and concording texts, lemmatizing word lists and generating 'slips' containing a single word with its lemma, context and source.

SELECT (Sum and Evaluate the Largest Exponentiated Correlation Terms) was a computer program for identifying associationally rich words for content analysis emerging from the WORDS research program developed in the 1970s. Although historically important, SELECT is no longer available and does not have an web presence.

TEXTPACK V is a historic collection of interrelated text analysis utilities first released for mainframe computers in the 1970s. With the fifth edition, released in the 1980s, it was ported from FORTRAN to run on PC.

FANGORN was a historically important programming language designed for linguistic analysis in the humanities.

SOLAR (A Semantically Oriented Lexical ARchive) was a historically important program originally available only over ARPAnet. It facilitated the semantic and conceptual analysis of English-language texts.

OPCOL was an algorithm developed in the mid-1970s for optimizing the efficiency of text collation from a computer science perspective, created by Robert L. Cannon, Jr. of the University of South Carolina.

FISHER was a string-handling package for the FORTRAN programming language. It enabled researchers to manipulate characters and character strings with greater ease than FORTRAN permitted by itself.