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| Title: | Oral history interview with Donald L. Bitzer |
| Authors: | Bitzer, Donald Lester |
| Keywords: | Computer history
Control Data Corporation
Computers -- History
Computer-assisted instruction -- History
Computer software -- History.
Computer software -- Development.
Computer industry -- History.
CDC 1604 (Computer)
Brooks, Harold |
| Issue Date: | 19-Feb-1988 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Donald Lester Bitzer, OH 141. Oral history interview by Sheldon Hochheiser, 19 February 1988, Champaign, Illinois. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107121 |
| Abstract: | Bitzer discusses his relationship with Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the development of PLATO, a computer-assisted instruction system. He describes the interest in PLATO of Harold Brooks, a CDC salesman and his help in procuring a 1604 computer for Bitzer's use. Bitzer recalls the commercialization of PLATO by CDC and his disagreements with CDC over marketing strategy and the creation of courseware for PLATO. |
| Description: | Transcript, 24 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95556 |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107121 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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