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History. Origin, founding and early years: Nova and SuperNova. Data General (DG) was founded by several engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation who were frustrated with DEC's management and left to form their own company.
Data General Corporation is a manufacturer of multi-user computer systems: minicomputers, workstations, and servers. During the minicomputer boom in the 1970s, Data General was one of the fastest growing U.S. companies and was considered one of the leaders in minicomputers.
Novas Are Forever. The sometimes quirky, often funny and always informative history of Data General Nova, Eclipse and MV computers. BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! We work worldwide with museums, universities, hobbyists and other organizations obsessed with preserving this important part of computer history before it fades away forever.
Edson deCastro, the manager for Digital Equipment Corporation’s famous PDP-8 minicomputer, left DEC to establish Data General in 1968. In 1969 they released the Nova minicomputer and it quickly became a popular machine in scientific and educational markets.
Data General was primarily a mini-computer company. But in 1984, it introduced the Data General/One (DG-1), a breakthrough personal computer laptop. The Data General/One weighed nine pounds, ran MS-DOS, had dual 3 ½" diskettes, a 79-key full stroke keyboard, 128 KB to 512 KB of RAM, and a monochrome LCD screen.
Data General produced a full range of peripherals, sometimes by rebadging printers for example, but Data General's own series of CRT-based and hard-copy terminals were high quality and featured a generous number of function keys, each with the ability to send different codes, with any combination of control and shift keys, which influenced ...
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer.
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer.
Data General's introduction of the Data General-One in 1984 is one of the few cases of a minicomputer company introducing a truly breakthrough PC product. Manufacturer : Data General Type : Computer
Thwarted at DEC, Thriving at Data General. Edson de Castro, the PDP-8’s designer, was frustrated by DEC’s refusal to approve a family of 16-bit computers. So he and other DEC engineers launched Data General in 1968 and created their own 16-bit design.
