Title
Berezin, Evelyn oral history : 2015 fellowCatalog Number
102746876Type
DocumentDescription
Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925. In 1951, she joined a start-up company, Elecom, based in Brooklyn, which had started to build digital computers. From 1951 to 1969, she worked at a number of companies designing a variety of special-purpose computer systems.While working for Teleregister in 1962, Berezin designed one of the largest systems built at that time: a passenger reservations system for United Airlines. The design of the central system (three independent, linked processors) served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time and with no central system failures in 11 years of operation.
In 1969, Berezin founded her own company: Redactron, a new maker of word processors. Redactron moved into its first building in December 1969. Redactron's first word processors were delivered in September 1971-one and a half years after the company was started with only nine people. A worldwide marketing organization was set up as well as a service organization, and Redactron grew. In 1975, it employed just under 500 people. Redactron was sold in 1976 to the Burroughs Corporation.
Berezin has served on Boards of a number of public companies, including CIGNA, Koppers Co., Datapoint, and Standard Microsystems. Additionally, she has worked as Advisor or Board member with about 20 start-up technology companies. Berezin is currently on the Board of Directors of the Stony Brook (University) Foundation and is a member of the Oversight Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU.
Date
2014-03-10Contributor
Berezin, Evelyn, Interviewee |
Hendrie, Gardner, Interviewer; videographer |
Publisher
Computer History MuseumPlace of Publication
New York, New YorkExtent
77 p.Format
PDFCopyright Holder
Computer History MuseumCategory
TranscriptionSubject
New York City; Bronx; New York University (NYU); Hunter College; International Printing Ink, Ltd.; Brooklyn Polytechnic; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); Lubkin, Samuel; Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation; ENIAC; Teleregister Corporation; Elecom; United Airlines; AT&T; General Electric; Digitronics; Redactron; International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); Burroughs; National Bureau of Standards (NBS); SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer)Collection Title
Oral history collectionCredit
Computer History MuseumLot Number
X7126.2014Related Records
102746875 | Berezin, Evelyn oral history : 2015 fellow |