Call Number: OH 283
Interviewee: Bitzer, Donald Lester
Interviewer: Mollie Price
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 75 pp.
Abstract: Bitzer, inventor of PLATO, 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.
Subject(s):
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. -- Computer-based Education Research Laboratory ; PLATO (Electronic computer system) -- Design and construction ; Control Data Corporation ; Computer-assisted instruction ; Bitzer, Donald Lester
Citation: Donald Lester Bitzer, OH 283. Oral history interview by Mollie Price, 17 August 1982. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Copyright: Copyright to this oral history is held by the Charles Babbage Institute. Distribution in any format of the transcript in its entirety is prohibited. Permission to quote from the transcript under the fair use provision of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code) is granted provided that this source is cited.
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Call Number: OH 141
Interviewee: Bitzer, Donald Lester
Interviewer: Sheldon Hochheiser
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 24 pp.
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.
Subject(s):
Control Data Corporation ; Computers -- History ; Computer-assisted instruction -- History ; Computer software -- History. ; Computer software -- Development. ; Computer industry -- History. ; CDC 1604 (Computer) ; Brooks, Harold ; Bitzer, Donald Lester
Citation: Donald Lester Bitzer, OH 141. Oral history interview by Sheldon Hochheiser, 19 February 1988, Champaign, Illinois. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Copyright: Copyright to this oral history is held by the Charles Babbage Institute. Distribution in any format of the transcript in its entirety is prohibited. Permission to quote from the transcript under the fair use provision of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code) is granted provided that this source is cited.
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