Fifth Generation Systems was a computer security

Computer security

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 company founded October 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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, United States

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 by Bob Mitchell, Roger Ibey, and Bruce Ray. All three later left the company. Fifth Generation's initial commercial product was FastBack (software)

FastBack (software)

FastBack was a software application developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for backing up IBM PC and Macintosh computers. It was originally written by Fifth Generation Systems Inc, a company located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...

, the first practical hard disk backup program for the IBM

IBM

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 PC.

The company was acquired by Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

 on October 4, 1993 for US$53.8 million.