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	Encyclopedia article: Control Data Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer (A mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time) firms.
		Of the members forming CDC, William Norris (additional info and facts about William Norris) was the unanimous choice to become CEO (The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)) of the new company.
		Little Character was a success, and they soon released a transistorized version of their 1103 design as the CDC 1604 in 1959, with the first machine delivered to the US Navy (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) in 1960.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/control_data_corporation.htm (2207 words)

	Control Data Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms.
		CDC was one of the eight major computer companies through most of the 1960s; along with CDC these were IBM, Burroughs, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC.
		Of the members forming CDC, William Norris was the unanimous choice to become CEO of the new company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Control_Data_Corporation (2018 words)

	Control Data Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of the members forming CDC, William Norris was the unanimous choice to become CEO of the new company, and Seymour Cray as their chief engineer.
		The CDC 8600 was to be a 4-processor unit in a case much smaller than the 7600 it would replace, the smaller size allowing for shorter delays and a faster clock cycle.
		The Control Data Corporation Collection at the Charles Babbage Institute – The Control Data Corporation Collection was donated to the Charles Babbage Institute by the Ceridian Corporation in 1991.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/control_data_corporation (1091 words)

	Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1962, Seymour Cray opened a Control Data Corporation laboratory near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where he led the design of the CDC 6600 computer.
		The CDC 6600 is believed to have been the first computer to be designated as a "supercomputer," offering the fastest clock speed for its day (100 nanoseconds).
		It was equipped with a large disk storage device and six high-speed drums as storage intermediate in speed and accessibility between the central core storage and magnetic tapes.
	www.cisl.ucar.edu /computers/gallery/cdc/6600.jsp (301 words)

	Control Data Corporation Collection - Historical Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Control Data Corporation was incorporated in Minnesota, July 8, 1957, by Fremont Fletcher, Abbot L. Fletcher, and D.P. Wassenberg with 600,000 shares of stock sold at $1 per share.
		Control Data is one of 15 companies establishing the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in Austin, Texas.
		A portion of CDC's corporate archives is donated to the Charles Babbage Institute.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cdc/histtimeline.html (680 words)

	Control Data Corporation (CDC) 7600
		The CDC 7600 won by a slight margin in benchmark tests run in early 1970.
		The CDC 7600 had a small-core memory of 65,536 60-bit words and a a clock speed of 27 nanoseconds.
		The CDC 7600 was replaced in 1983 by a used CRAY-1A.
	www.cisl.ucar.edu /computers/gallery/cdc/7600.jsp (263 words)

	Charles Babbage Institute: CBI'S COLLECTIONS > Control Data Corporation Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Control Data Corporation was incorporated on July 8, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		CDC grew rapidly, eventually becoming the largest computer company in Minnesota by number of employees and annual revenues.
		The Control Data Corporation Collection documents the company's operations, goals, plans, and products from its inception in 1957 to 1992, and includes information about CDC's corporate philosophy and long-time president and CEO (1957-1986), William C. Norris.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cdc/cbi00080.html (390 words)

	Encyclopedia: Control Data Corporation
		A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction.
		RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related...
		Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Control-Data-Corporation (514 words)

	Everything you always wanted to know about Control Data Corporation
		CDC was originally formed by thirteen members of the Sperry Rand Univac computer division.
		Of the members forming CDC, William Norris was the unanimous choice to become CEO, and Seymour Cray as their chief engineer.
		ASCC was eventually cancelled in 1969 after producing nothing, and 190 of the 200 employees stayed on the coast rather than suffer being recalled to IBM in New York.
	www.relan.net /List_of_American_companies/Control_Data_Corporation.html (1002 words)

	CHAPTER V: Computers -- Deception by Control Data Corporation
		The 1973 Control Data Corporation technical assistance agreement with the Soviet Union enabled the Soviets to complete phase one of their semiconductor manufacturing plant (see Chapter Four).
		Highly significant is a comparison of Control Data Corporation's public argument to the media and Congress with this 1973 agreement and its totally one-sided presentation of the national security argument.
		We have documentary evidence in the case of Control Data Corporation and its Chairman, William Norris.
	reformed-theology.org /html/books/best_enemy/chapter_05.htm (2531 words)

	CDC - Connected Device Configuration, Control Data Corporation
		CDC's mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
		Center for Disease Control and Prevention Charged with protecting the nation's public health by providing direction in the prevention and control of communicable and other diseases and responding to public health emergencies.
		The CDC is responsible for monitoring and reporting infectious diseases, administers AIDS surveillance grants, and publishes epidemiologic reports such as the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report.
	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/CDC.asp (499 words)

	Vector Processors: Historical Perspectives
		The first vector machines were the CDC STAR-100 and the TI ASC, both announced in 1972.Both were memory-memory vector machines.
		The CDC STAR machine and tis descendant, the CYBER-205, were memory-memory vector machines.
		The basis for modern vectorizing compiler technology and the notion of data dependence was developed by Kuck and his colleagues at the University of Illinois.
	parallel.ru /history/vector_history.html (1026 words)

	Control Data Corporation, CDC-6600 & 7600
		James T. Humberd was a CDC 6600 salesman, and used these slides to present the system.
		The Control Data CDC 6400:"The punchcard period" - a very readable description of the SCOPE operation system, including the available displays on the CRTs.
		The CDC 6600 consisted of a large central processor, surrounded by 10 peripheral and control processors that were assigned the tasks of operating the devices connected to the input/output channels, and transferring data to and from the central processor.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/vs-cdc-6600.html (1660 words)

	Doug Jones's CDC 160 Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The CDC 160 computer, introduced in 1960 was the first truly small computer to hit the market.
		The CDC 160 was sufficiently successful that CDC followed with the 160A and the 8092.
		The base configuration for a CDC 160A cost $110,000 (as remembered by George R. Gonzalez); this gave you the CPU, minimal memory, high-speed paper-tape reader, medium speed punch, and a flexowriter.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/cdc160 (179 words)

	The Supercomputer Arrives with the CDC 6600 in 1964
		The Supercomputer Arrives with the CDC 6600 in 1964
		Control Data Corp. introduced the CDC 6600 in 1964 at which time it was three times faster than the IBM Stretch, which had been the speed champ for a couple years.
		The CDC 6600 achieved its speed by using ten peripheral processors pipelining data to a central processor that could process three million instructions per second.
	www.cedmagic.com /history/cdc-6600.html (74 words)

	Cray-Cyber - Control Data Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1962 CDC 3000 family, not done by Seymour Cray (who is working on the 6600 together with Thornton and a design crew totaling 34, at Chippewa Falls).
		CDC 7600 first shipment, 4-5 times the speed of the 6600, largely compatible.
		A table of CDC mainframe machines may be found
	www.cray-cyber.org /memory/cdc.php (283 words)

	Nelson Passos Biography
		At Control Data Brazil As a manager At University of North Dakota At University of Notre Dame At Midwestern State University
		While at CDC, Dr. PASSOS was offered a part time professorship at PUC (Pontifical Catholic University) which he managed to work on for one year.
		Unfortunately, at the end of the 80's, Control Data Corporation was suffering the effects from the computer market crisis.
	cs.mwsu.edu /~passos/bio.html (2001 words)

	Active Skim View of: Control Data Corporation: Alternate Work Site Programs
		Control Data Corporation (CDC) has attempted to address these issues by using alternate work sites, such as home and satellite offices.
		The AWS program changes the structure and flow of work and communication, requiring special attention to the management and control of remote workers, space scheduling and long-range facility requirements, selection of equipment and office technologies to support remote employees, and evaluation of the success of the program.
		Some have previously been considered unemployable, including individuals who are severely disabled due to injury or illness, have a progressive disability, have a fluctuating health condition, or were born with a disability.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309034833&chap=38-50 (717 words)

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		This series consists mainly of analysis and reports on attitudes toward the Control Data Corporation (CDC) and its products, resulting from surveys and studies of CDC employees and outside groups.
		CDC employee surveys and resulting reports were usually produced in-house.
		Also included is information on corporate logos, analysis of PLATO advertising, and literature produced by CDC on company identity and the company's Corporate Identification Program, which provided employees with policies and standards for product and corporate identification.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/ead/cbi/cbi00080-20.xml (482 words)

	control data corporation
		In the late 1980's, Control Data Corporation (now known as Ceridian), like many corporations, laid off thousands of workers.
		Control Data Corporation CDC-3800 Computer Source: Space History.
		Control Data Corporation CDC-3800 computer The CDC 3800 was a large …
	www.jaramillolaw.com /control-data-corporation.html (186 words)

	From "Ward of the State" to "Revolutionary Without a Movement": The Political Development of William C. Norris and ...
		From "Ward of the State" to "Revolutionary Without a Movement": The Political Development of William C. Norris and Control Data Corporation, 1957-1986 -- Hart 6 (2): 197 -- Enterprise and Society
		From "Ward of the State" to "Revolutionary Without a Movement": The Political Development of William C. Norris and Control Data Corporation, 1957–1986
		Data Corporation (CDC) and its founder and chief executive officer,
	es.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/6/2/197?... (212 words)

	Visible Storage
		Unfortunately, manufacturer name is not unique, due to purchases, such as Bendix (G-15) purchased by Control Data, or Convex by Hewlett/Packard.
		Control Data Corporation (CDC) / ETA Systems, Inc.
		CDC 6600 - S/N 1, (2 pcs) & console (P)
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/visible-storage.html (246 words)

	Control Data Corporation Campus Contact Information and Control Data Corporation Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The following is a school profile and campus contact information for Control Data Corporation.
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	www.college-rankings.com /profile/5627 (123 words)

	Control Data Corporation: The Norris Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From a modest start in 1957, Control Data Corporation under the leadership of its founder, William C. Norris, grew rapidly to become a worldwide, multibilliondollar enterprise, the major producer of the world's most powerful computers and peripheral products, and provider of a wide range of vital computer services.
		Along the way, the company explored means for applying digital technologies to aid in the solution of critical problems of contemporary society.
		From a pinnacle of achievement by the early 1980s, Control Data slipped into a series of technological and financial crises from which it is still struggling to emerge.
	csdl.computer.org /comp/mags/an/1995/01/a1047abs.htm (155 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6592762 - CDC/1000: a Control Data Corporation remote batch terminal emulator for Hewlett-Packard minicomputers
		Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
		CDC/1000: a Control Data Corporation remote batch terminal emulator for Hewlett-Packard minicomputers
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6592762 (88 words)

	Find in a Library: The private sector in state correctional industries : the Control Data program in Minnesota
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/28b2a821f2e203e2a19afeb4da09e526.html (90 words)

	S-100 Bus / IEEE-696 Archive: Control Data Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These manuals are for Control Data Corporation products.
		If you have any others not listed below or on the bitsavers site, please contact me.
		More CDC manuals may be found at: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/
	www.hartetechnologies.com /manuals/CDC (40 words)

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