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==The name==

[[Image:{{pic|Informatics, Inc. logo 1978.GIF|thumb|right|260pxsvg|The earlier company logo, as seen in the 1970s]]1960s}}

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The company's name came from the founders' desire to base it on "-atics", a Greek suffix meaning "the science of".<ref name="bauer-et">Bauer, "Informatics and (et) Informatique".</ref> Their first thought was "Datamatics", but a form of that was already taken by an early computer from [[Honeywell]]/[[Raytheon]]; Bauer and the others settled on "Informatics", meaning "the science of information handling".<ref name="bauer-et"/><ref name="frank-oh-39-40"/>