ADR's widely used major packages included: Autoflow for automatic flowcharting, which is often cited as one of the first commercial software applications;[2] Roscoe, a remote job submission environment; MetaCOBOL, an extensible macro processor for the COBOL language; and The Librarian, for source-code management.

The center was destroyed by fire in 1969 when a light plane crashed into it on approach to the airport, but there were no serious injuries among either the pilot or the workers in the building.

[12] It is a text editor and also provides some operating system functionality such as the ability to submit batch jobs similar to ISPF[a] or XEDIT.

The ability to support 200+ concurrent active users and still have low overhead is based on a Single address space architecture.

[14][dubious – discuss] The RPF (Roscoe Programming Facility)[15][b] is a scripting language with string processing capability.

Computer Associates had a reputation for mass dismissals within companies it took over; this was the case with ADR as well, as some 200 employees from the Montgomery facility were let go on the morning of October 19, 1988.