Oral history interview with Donald Lester Bitzer, 1982 Aug. 17.

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Oral history interview with Donald Lester Bitzer, 1982 Aug. 17.

Bitzer discusses the history of the development of PLATO including the interaction between the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois and Control Data Corporation.

Sound cassettes : 2 (60 min. each) : analog, mono.Transcript: 75 leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7814070

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Bitzer, Donald Lester

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Inventor of PLATO computer-assisted education system. From the description of Oral history interview with Donald Lester Bitzer, 1982 Aug. 17. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62436507 Computer scientist and PLATO co-inventor. From the description of Oral history interview with Donald Lester Bitzer, 1988 Feb. 19. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63289509 ...

Price, Mollie,

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Control Data Corporation

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In January 1980, William C. Norris began planning for Control Data Corporation (CDC) executives to write histories of the major business segments of the company. After compiling a list of potential contributors, selected current and former CDC executives were requested to write narratives, with as much supporting documentation as possible, on specific business areas or topics in mid-1980. By late 1981, all the narratives had been completed. From the description of Control Data Corpor...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Computer-based Education Research Laboratory

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