Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group...
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Control Data Institute (CDI) was an international technical vocational school created by the American Control Data Corporation in the mid-1960s. 1965 Control...
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Manual (PDF). Control Data Corporation. September 1964. 60057700. 3600 Computer System SCOPE/Reference Manual (PDF). Control Data Corporation. September...
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archive IBM Corporation (1971). IBM 3505 Card Reader and IBM 3525 Card Punch Subsystem. Retrieved July 28, 2016. Control Data Corporation (1967). PUNCHED...
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company Control Data Corporation entered into an agreement to acquire Israel government's interest in 'Elbit Computers' for US$1 million. Control Data Corporation...
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Seymour Cray (redirect from Cray Computer Corporation)
spun off as Sperry Rand. In 1957, they founded a new company, Control Data Corporation. By 1960 he had completed the design of the CDC 1604, an improved...
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CDC 6000 series (category Control Data Corporation hardware)
is a discontinued family of mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. It consisted of the CDC 6200, CDC 6300, CDC 6400...
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Open Platform Communications (redirect from OLE for process control)
Process Control. OPC specifies the communication of real-time plant data between control devices from different manufacturers. After the initial release in...
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Dayforce (redirect from Ceridian Corporation)
Dayforce, formerly Ceridian, is a descendant of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1992, Ceridian Corporation was founded as an information services company...
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CDC 7600 (redirect from Control Data 7600)
designed by Seymour Cray to be the successor to the CDC 6600, extending Control Data's dominance of the supercomputer field into the 1970s. The 7600 ran at...
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SCADA (redirect from Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user...
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CDC STAR-100 (category Control Data Corporation hardware)
supercomputer that was designed, manufactured, and marketed by Control Data Corporation (CDC). It was one of the first machines to use a vector processor...
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CDC 8600 (category Control Data Corporation hardware)
last of Seymour Cray's supercomputer designs while he worked for Control Data Corporation. As the natural successor to the CDC 6600 and CDC 7600, the 8600...
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Centronics (redirect from Centronics Data Computer Corporation)
Centronics Data Computer Corporation was an American manufacturer of computer printers, now remembered primarily for the parallel interface that bears...
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Reference Manual, Control Data Corporation, Part Number 60407000, 1974 NOS Version 1 Applications Programmer's Instant, Control Data Corporation, Part Number...
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Bus (computing) (redirect from Data bus)
feature of their platforms. Other high-performance vendors like Control Data Corporation implemented similar designs. Generally, the channel controllers...
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CDC 6600 (redirect from Control Data 6600)
the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer...
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succeeded the Chippewa Operating System (shipped with earlier Control Data Corporation CDC 6000 series and 7600 computer systems), and was the Cray main...
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the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation (CDC), General Electric (GE), Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), RCA and Sperry Rand...
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CDC 3000 series (category Control Data Corporation hardware)
"thirty-one hundred") are a family of mainframe computers from Control Data Corporation (CDC). The first member, the CDC 3600, was a 48-bit system introduced...
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Allen had a friend, Paul Wennberg, who, like them, loitered at Control Data Corporation near the University of Washington, cadging open time on the mainframe...
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History of supercomputing (section Export controls)
supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and...
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CDC Cyber (category Control Data Corporation hardware)
of mainframe-class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer...
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In the Philippines, a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), sometimes with an "and/or", is a state-owned enterprise that conducts both commercial...
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high-end System/360 Model 92, IBM sold SBC for $16 million to Control Data Corporation, which had a growing service bureau business of its own. Yost,...
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supply, data communication connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression), and various security devices. A large data center...
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Ticketron (category Control Data Corporation)
Alexander's stores in New York and New Jersey using a duplexed Control Data Corporation 1700 computer system with terminal equipment supplied by Computer...
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IBM 7030 Stretch (section Data formats)
failures in IT history. Within IBM, being eclipsed by the smaller Control Data Corporation seemed hard to accept. The project lead, Stephen W. Dunwell, was...
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subsidiary of IBM. SBC was later sold to Minneapolis-based company (Control Data Corporation). Source: Burt McGregor Sammet 1969, p.226. History of Programming...
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Engineering Research Associates (category Control Data Corporation)
UNIVAC department. Many of the company founders later left to form Control Data Corporation. The ERA team started as a group of scientists and engineers working...
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