Title:
Oral History of Robert Price

Date:
2006-06-12

Pages:
21 p.

Interviewer:
Hendrie, Gardner; interviewer
Price, Robert; interviewee
Rosenshteyn, Yan; cameraperson

Abstract:
Robert Price discusses his forty year career as a pioneer in the computer industry. He reviews his family history and describes his education and early career, as well as looks at how he rose through the ranks at the Control Data Corporation (CDC), from programmer to Chairman and CEO. This interview also examines the inner workings of CDC in the during the period of their remarkable growth that allowed them to become one of the major computer companies in the world.

Keywords:
Price, Robert
Convair
Standard Oil of California
Zemlin, Richard
Control Data Corporation (CDC)
Norris, Bill
Linear programming
Thornton, Jim
Information services
Marketing
Schmidt, Bob
Lawsuit
Quorum Data Systems
Service Bureau Company (SBC)
White, Henry
Duke University

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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