Oral history interview with Donald L. Bitzer

Bitzer, Donald Lester
1988-02-19
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Oral history interview with Donald L. Bitzer

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1988-02-19

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Charles Babbage Institute

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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.

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Transcript, 24 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95556

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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

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Bitzer, Donald Lester. (1988). Oral history interview with Donald L. Bitzer. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107121.

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