Computer History Museum

Bayles, Dick (Richard) oral history

Richard (Dick) Bayles reviews his extremely varied career from his first experiences with computers at Project Mac at MIT and his work at Lincoln Labs. He then joined the start up of what became National CSS, a major timesharing company. He was a jack of all trades at NCSS, from heading up program development, and building new data center facilities, to even becoming the Controller of the company. After NCSS was sold to Dun & Bradstreet, he developed SalesNet and then left D&B to join Alan Brigish in another start up called Videolog. When that was sold to Schweber Electronics, he became a consultant at Capital Cities/ABC working on a number of projects there until it was reorganized and he then worked for Fairchild Publications which was part of Disney. When he left Disney, he continued to work on various new projects on an opportunistic basis.

Item Details

Date
2009-06-01 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102701990
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Chris McDonald (Interviewer)
Richard (Dick) Bayles (Interviewee)
Nicholas Rawlings (Editor)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
30 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5384.2009
Subject
Project Mac, Tymshare, RAMIS, SHARE, Dun & Bradstreet, Comshare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Amdahl Corporation, NOMAD, Mathematica, CompuServe, DARPA, Lincoln Laboratory, VAX/VMS, Interactive Data Corporation (IDC)
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection