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Title: Oral history interview with Dale Eugene LaFrenz
Call Number: OH 315
Interviewee: LaFrenz, Dale Eugene
Interviewer: Judy E. O'Neill
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 32 pp.
Abstract: After briefly discussing his educational background, he relates his initial exposure with computing in the classroom while teaching at the University of Minnesota high school. He discusses their use of early BASIC through telecommunications to Dartmouth and the spread of computing use to local schools. LaFrenz recounts the formation of TIES, Total Information for Educational Systems, and his move to Honeywell to assist them in developing instructional time-sharing. The bulk of the interview concerns his role in the creation of Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), MECC's early provision of instructional and administrative computing to Minnesota school districts, and the evolution into an educational software developer and supplier.
Subject(s):
Computer software -- Development. ; Education -- Data processing ; LaFrenz, Dale Eugene ; Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Citation: Dale Eugene LaFrenz, OH 315. Oral history interview by Judy E. O'Neill, 13 April 1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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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