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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 included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.
15 Jul 2018 · Learn about the origins, products, and achievements of Control Data Corporation, a pioneering computer company founded in 1957 by former Sperry-Univac engineers. CDC was known for its mainframes and supercomputers, such as the CDC 1604 and the CDC 6600, and its peripherals and services businesses.
Learn about the history of CDC, a pioneer of scientific computing systems, founded in 1957 in Minneapolis. Explore its products, innovations, and challenges in the brochures collection.
Learn about the origins, achievements, and challenges of Control Data Corporation, a Minnesota-based computer company that pioneered supercomputers and minicomputers. Explore photos, documents, and stories from its founders, engineers, and customers.
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. [8] [9] Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three.
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).
The CDC Cyber range 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 architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive computing.
