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3 unusual facts about Control Data Corporation


CDC display code

Display code is the 6-bit character set used by many computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation, notably the CDC 6600 in 1964.

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NERSC was founded in 1974 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then called the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Computer Center or CTRCC and consisting of a Control Data Corporation 6600 computer.

Plan calcul

The company also produced competitive magnetic peripherals in cooperation with CDC.


Digigraphics

Originally developed at Itek on the PDP-1 as EDM (Electronic Drafting Machine), the efforts were purchased by Control Data Corporation and ported to their machines, along with a new graphics terminal to support it.

Gaylon H. White

He was a sportswriter for the Denver Post, Arizona Republic and Oklahoma Journal before entering the corporate world and writing speeches for top executives at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Control Data Corporation and Eastman Chemical Company.

LaFarr Stuart

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Stuart worked for Control Data Corporation (CDC) -- where Seymour Cray designed the CDC 6600, the first commercial supercomputer.

PL/I

CDC delivered an optimizing subset PL/I compiler for Cyber 70, 170 and 6000 series.

In addition to IBM, Honeywell, CDC, Data General, Digital Equipment, Prime Computer, Burroughs, RCA, and Univac served on X3J1 along with major users Eastman Kodak, MITRE, Union Carbide, Bell Laboratories, and various government and university representatives.


see also

6600

CDC 6600, a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first manufactured in 1965