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Oral History of Charles W. (Charlie) Bachman
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Charles Bachman
1973 Turing Award Recipient
Interviewed by Gardner Hendrie
February 4, 2015
Lexington, Massachusetts
Video Interview Transcript
This video interview and its transcript were originally produced by the Computer History
Museum as part of their Oral History activities and are copyrighted by them.
CHM Reference number: X7400.2015
© 2006 Computer History
Museum.
The Computer History Museum has generously allowed the ACM to use these resources.
Oral History of Charles W. (Charlie) Bachman
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GH: Gardner Hendrie, interviewer
CB: Charles Bachman, 1973 Turing Award Recipient
GH: …Alright. We have here today with us Charlie Bachman, who’s graciously agreed to do an
oral history for the Computer History Museum. Thank you very much Charlie. I think I’d
like to start out with a very simple question: What is your earliest recollection of what you
wanted to do when you grew up?
CB: Well I guess the best answer, I don’t really think of any early recollection...
GH: Okay.
CB: …about that. I just kind of grew into it.
GH: Alright. Now I have read that you decided to become a mechanical engineer relatively
early. How did that come about? What influenced you to make that decision? And when did
you make it?
CB: Well I grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, which is the heart of General Motors and Ford
and Chrysler, building automobiles. And so you thought engineers were people who
designed cars and things that go with them, and that’s mainly mechanical engineering. So I
just somehow thought that was the general course you took in engineering; if you didn’t
know what kind of engineer you want to be, you do mechanical engineer. And so that’s
what I did.
GH: Alright. But what led you to think engineering was what you would like? Were there
courses in high school, or other influences that led you to say, “I think I want to be an
engineer”?
CB: Well... only thing I can think of in high school is that the man who had taught mechanical
drawing was a good friend, and was also the shop teacher and track team coach. And I was
on the track team although I didn’t run very fast, but I had a lot of respect for Mister Adams
and what he did for us. And so probably there was some influence in terms of engineering
that came from him, and his talking to us.
GH: Okay. I would like to focus most of this interview on your particular accomplishments. But
the thing I’m most interested in is not precisely what you did, because that’s very well
documented, but where did the ideas come from and how did you end up deciding to do
what you did? So maybe I should start with your time at Dow; that was your first job,
correct?
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