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ADR received the first patent issued for a computer program, a sorting system, on April 23, 1968. [6] The program was developed by Martin Goetz. [7] In this effort, ADR enlisted support of the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO), which argued that being able to patent software innovations was vital to smaller companies being able to succeed in the market against ...
The CDC 6400, a member of the CDC 6000 series, is a mainframe computer made by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. The central processing unit was architecturally compatible with the CDC 6600. In contrast to the 6600, which had 10 parallel functional units which could work on multiple instructions at the same time, the 6400 had a unified ...
CDC's first products were based on the machines designed at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), which Seymour Cray had been asked to update after moving to CDC. After an experimental machine known as the Little Character, [20] in 1960 they delivered the CDC 1604, one of the first commercial transistor-based computers, and one of the fastest machines on the market.
A CDC Cyber 170 Computer room, 1986 A CDC Cyber 70/74 A CDC Cyber 70/74 console. The CDC Cyber range of mainframe-class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1961, the company changed its name to Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), and began using punched card machines, check printing machines, and mainframe computers. ADP went public in 1961 with 300 clients, 125 employees, and revenues of approximately US$400,000 . [ 3 ]
Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation (MDS) was an early computer hardware company, started by former Univac engineers in 1964; [1] by 1985 they were struggling to sell off part of their company. [ 2 ] History
National Data Corporation (NDC) was an American information technology company and payment processor founded in 1967 by Ret. U.S. Air Force Colonel George Thorpe. [1] At its peak in 1987, NDC was the world's largest payments processor by volume.
Data General Corporation was one of the first minicomputer firms of the late 1960s. [1] Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Their first product, 1969's Data General Nova , was a 16-bit minicomputer intended to both outperform and cost less than the equivalent from DEC, the 12-bit PDP-8 .