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==The name==

{{pic|Informatics, Inc. logo.svg|The earlier company logo, used from the 1960s to 1982<ref>{{cite journal | last=Informatics General Corporation | date=June 7, 1982 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LaqX2JB6_UC&pg=PA93 | title=After 20 Years as a Captain of Industry, Informatics Makes General | work=Computerworld | page=93 | format=Advertisement}}</ref>}}

{{pic|Informatics, Inc. logo.svg|The earlier company logo, as seen in the 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"/>