Oral history interview with Walter F. Bauer, 1983 May 16.

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Oral history interview with Walter F. Bauer, 1983 May 16.

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Bauer discusses his work at Ramo-Wooldridge and the formation and growth of his own software firm, Informatics General Corporation. Bauer joined Ramo-Wooldridge in 1954 and worked on various projects, mostly in software development, in the 1950s and early 1960s. In this context he describes the proprietary nature of software and the development of the software industry. In 1962 Bauer, Werner Frank, Richard Hill, and Frank Wagner started Informatics General Corporation as a wholly owned subsidiary of Dataproducts.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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