Fifth Generation Systems

Fifth Generation Systems was a computer security company founded October 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States by Bob Mitchell, Roger Ibey, and Bruce Ray. All three later left the company. Fifth Generation's initial commercial product was FastBack, the first practical hard disk backup program for the IBM PC. Software by Fifth Generation Systems includes: FastBack - hard disk backup utility DiskDoubler - on-the-fly hard drive compression software CopyDoubler - system utility for speeding up file copies and managing file copy queues Suitcase - font management utility Search&Destroy - online and offline virus scanner for DOS and Windows, included in Novell DOS 7 The company was acquired by Symantec on October 4, 1993 for US$53.8 million.