Control Data Corporation

Control Data Corporation

Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far. CDC only lost that title in the 1970s after Cray left the company to found Cray Research (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC. CDC was well known and highly regarded throughout the industry at one time. After several years of losses in the early 1980s, CDC made the decision to leave the computer manufacturing business and sell those parts of the company in 1988, a process that was completed in 1992 with the creation of Control Data Systems, Inc.. The remaining businesses of CDC currently operate as Ceridian.

Read more about Control Data Corporation:  Background and Origins: World War II–1957, Early Designs and Cray's Big Plan, Peripherals Business, CDC 6600: Defining Supercomputing, CDC 7600 and 8600, The STAR and The Cyber, ETA Systems, Magnetic Peripherals, Wind-down and Sale of Assets, Timeline of CDC Systems Releases, Film and Science Fiction References

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